Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 17 Cicely Tyson quotes that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Cicely Tyson Quotes
I know instantly whether I should take a role. If my skin tingles as I read the script, then it is absolutely something I must do. But if my stomach churns, I do not touch the project, because if I did, I’d end up on a psychiatrist’s couch. Either my spirit can take the story or it cannot, and my senses have never misled me.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
My eyes fall first on people’s shoes even before I look up at their faces. Our feet tell our stories. They carry us through this life, moving us from one sorrow and season to the next. Our gait can reveal us to be buoyant or bullish, dispirited or steadfast.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
There’s a path in this life with your name on it. What God means for you to have, no one can take away from you. It’s already yours. Our mission, as God’s children, is to surrender to what he has ordained – and to freely let all else just pass us by.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
In the United States, protest is our birthright, but when you exercise that right, you are often penalized for it.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
I am a daughter and a mother, a sister and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by his hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
I am as inquisitive about life now as I was as a child. My story will never be finished, nor should it be. For as long as God grants me breath, I will be living – and writing – my next chapter.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
I am a firm believer in divine guidance. Above all, I am God’s child, cradled in his unfailing arms, guided by his infinite wisdom. Everything that is happening in my life is unfolding exactly as God has intended. There are no coincidences. Rather, there is a loving Savior who holds my future as securely as he does my life, and at every juncture, he is whispering his will, showing me the way.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
I tell you, this life doesn’t simply come with its share of unpredictability; surprise is its most conspicuous feature.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
When you ask God for strength, as I do daily, he doesn’t usually just drop it from the sky. He often answers by placing you in a circumstance that requires you to build fortitude while relying solely on him.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
As life has taught me time and again, you often have to lose your present circumstance to make room for your forthcoming one.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
I may initially waver before lunging toward a new experience, but once I do, I grow unrelenting.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
When someone sees you headed in a direction, and that person throws a brick into the road, that is the precise moment to forge onward, with greater velocity, toward your destination.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
When someone violates you sexually, it does not simply haunt and aggrieve you; it alters the very shape of your soul.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
Just walking through this life as a Black person, and actually surviving that, was and still is an ovation-worthy performance.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
I am not one to feel as if I have arrived, for even at age ninety-six, I am still arriving.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
You always seek to control others when you are not in full ownership of yourself.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
We’re fortunate, in this life, if we’ve known true love once. I have and I relished it.
from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson