Have you noticed how people like to use quotes to justify their positions or arguments.  Usually it’s religious or some old English playwright.  As if a sentence from some dead person can make everything right.  We usually don’t even know if the quote is correct.  The brown in me use to tell my children when in doubt in school, use your African grandfather as someone to quote.  Assign any thought to him and see how important it becomes.

“My grandfather in Africa use to say to me, it’s true if its told to you by an elder.”

 

The other amazing thing about quoting books and dead ones is there is no way to prove it wrong. Also you can use the quotes in any form you desire to prove which ever point you want to make.  The context is lost in time.

Example 1

A woman says to a man: A man can and will sexually abuse every woman in the world.

The man replies: With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible. Mark 10: 27

Don’t you love also how they add verbal footnotes, as if we were going to pull out the bible and check.

Example 2

An Arab man says to a woman wearing a burka; You know I have been working hard, and killing all these infidels and what I need now to help me feel good is sex.  You need to have sex with me, because its the good thing to do.

The woman slaps him and he grabs her arms and quotes; “And spend of your substance in cause of Allah, and make not your own hands contribute to (your) destruction; but do good; for Allah loveth those who do good.” 2:195 Al Bakara.

So in today’s world when you are fed up with news and life;

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Mathew 11:28

Read this column because; “That is the straight path”. | Surah Ali ‘Imran 3:51

In order to help, as I am all about help here are 10 great brown in me quotes to use and scenarios to use them in. Perhaps you will find better scenarios. Just remember to give the dates.

1. When someone is telling you a story about an incident which is ambiguous. Or when someone tells you something you don’t believe in. The world is not black or white.  January 02 2017.
2. When you are being charged too much for things.  When your children don’t want to work. When someone complains about why your product cost so much.  It’s hard to live in this world without money. April 28 2017.
3. When someone is constantly telling you about their workout regiment.  About their daily meditation schedule. Have you tried sex?  April 24 2017.
4. When you are caught in a rainstorm and it stops.  When someone who is yelling at you stops. When you are at a cashier and they give you back your change. This was the change I was wanting. November 24 2017.
5. Whenever you hear about war, fighting and foreign conflicts. Peace will not come if your children are not given the tools to forgive. December 19 2017.  (always shake your head when you use this quote)
6. When you feel pain, sorrow. When you are in a environment where people are suffering.  I am not immune. January 30 2018.
7. When people try to pressure you to do something. To fight peer pressure. When people want you to agree with their opinion. The goal is not to assimilate. April 20 2018.
8. When someone is telling a story about a celebrity or is glorifying someone you really don’t like. In my life there are no humans who I have treated as God. May 25 2018.
9. When informed of death, shake your head as you quote; Friends and family seem to be dying all the time.  October 27 2017.
10.  This is my favorite quote from the Book of Brown.  In every conversation where there is no resolution, I like to quote from June 30 2017, “only thing that matters is what I think. “

Source: ItsTheBrownInMe