Panthers Quotes

• The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

  Huey Newton

  Wipe, Come Up, Corners

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• The wilderness needs your whole attention.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Needs, Attention, Wilderness

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• The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

  Allen Tate

  Heart, Innocence, Innocent

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• If called by a panther, don't anther.

  Ogden Nash

  Advice, Ifs

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

  Aristophanes

  Women, Fire, Untamed

  Aristophanes (2006). “Complete Plays of Aristophanes”, p.367, Bantam Classics

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• But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

  Clarice Lispector

  Eye, Two, Darkness

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.20, U of Minnesota Press

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• A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Elephants, Voice, Light

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.1920, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Giving, Psychologist, I Can

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• It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

  Daniel Handler

  Sea, Black, Eating

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Lying, Cat

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• The god we now behold with opened eyes,
  A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
  In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
  On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

  Ovid

  Lying, Eye, Herds

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The Third”

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Self, Black

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• I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sharks, Denver, Lizards

  "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

  Bobby Seale

  Revenge, Party, Black

  "A Closer Look at the New Black Panther Party". 6abc.com. November 09, 2010.

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• If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

  Anthony Mackie

  Essence, Community, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Bait, Poison

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Silly, Blow, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three”, p.16, e-artnow

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• Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

  Fred Hampton

  Party, Home, Simple

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• There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, People, Black

  " Bobby Seale Still Fundraising For Scripted Black Panthers Life Story Feature Film" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2013.

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• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.17, Zondervan

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• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Adversity, Cat, Men

  "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.

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• When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Country, Animal

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• People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Teenager, People, Young

  "This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2016.

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• The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.

  Philipp Meyer

  Children, Growing Up, Animal

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