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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3772342 | Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 7041046 | an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world. | Lisa Unger | ||
| bd74343 | I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life. | Lisa Unger | ||
| e8df36b | Is the prey complicit in its own demise? Are we not seduced in some small way by the beauty, the grace, even the dangerous soul of the predator? | Lisa Unger | ||
| 8c56e79 | It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think. | Lisa Unger | ||
| f2a2952 | What we think of as our "gut instincts" are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires." | Lisa Unger | ||
| 135a154 | I thought about my brother. I hated him. Hated him like a child hates a fallen hero. I hated him for his unlimited potential and his failure to realize it. I hated him because I could see everything that was wonderful about him, how brilliant, how beautiful he was, and how he had turned his back on everything he could have been, cast it off like a designer suit for which he'd paid an obscene sum and never wore. | Lisa Unger | ||
| 9029f9e | Each of us extracted different people from our parents by our personalities and hence we had different experiences growing up. | Lisa Unger | ||
| d83b867 | New Rule: The sad mime at every protest has to give it a rest. One sign you're a major annoyance: when you haven't said anything and I want to tell you to shut the fuck up. | protest | Bill Maher | |
| 68c6bd9 | Forget bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me why, in 2009, we still have more than sixty thousand troops in Germany and thirty thousand in Japan? At some point, these people are going to have to learn to rape themselves. Our soldiers have been in Germany so long they now wear shorts with black socks. You know that crazy soldier hiding in the cave on Iwo Jima who doesn't kno.. | soldiers troops | Bill Maher | |
| f2dda27 | New Rule: Since Glenn Beck is clearly onto us, liberals must launch our plan for socialist domination immediately. Listen closely, comrades, I've received word from General Soros and our partners in the UN--Operation Streisand is a go. Markos Moulitsas, you and your -controlled army of gay Mexican day laborers will join with Michael Moore's Prius tank division north of Branson, where you will seize the guns of everyone who doesn't blame Am.. | glenn-beck left-wing politics | Bill Maher | |
| 89d29bf | New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying, "You either love me or you hate me." There's actually a third option: not giving a shit about you." -- | Bill Maher | ||
| 595dfa3 | It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved. | involvement unwillingness | Bill Maher | |
| b668997 | Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it. | burning-flags freedom patriotism | Bill Maher | |
| e639d83 | It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay. | gas-prices perspective | Bill Maher | |
| 2146d9c | New Rule: You don't need a paper shredder. I've seen your mail--it's not that interesting. What are you worried about, that the magazine from the auto club might fall into the wrong hands? I hate to break it to you 007, but the Victoria's Secret catalog isn't actually a secret. | privacy | Bill Maher | |
| 0bc2e3f | Since nobody reacts to car alarms anymore, stop putting alarms in cars. Face it. At this point, car alarms are like Glenn Beck: annoying, pointless, and everyone's finally learned to ignore them. When I hear one, my first thought is: "Please, God, I hope someone is stealing that car so they'll drive it away from my window." | Bill Maher | ||
| af1bc5b | New Rule: Whenever you think the Tea Party can't get any dumber, they get dumber. Now they're in love with Donald Trump. Because nothing says "We're serious about fiscal responsibility" quite like a billionaire whose corporations have filed for bankruptcy three times." | humor | Bill Maher | |
| 52ce527 | Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the sights you want to see. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| d1cd98b | In the daytime you aren't afraid of anything. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| d6e434f | The way Two-Bit, after the police had taken Dally's body away, had griped because he had lost his switchblade when they searched Dallas. "Is that all that's bothering you, that switchblade?" a red-eyed Steve had snapped at him. "No," Two-Bit had said with a quivering sigh, "but that's what I'm wishing was all that's bothering me."" | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 43850b9 | It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| ff1cf13 | Stay gold, Ponyboy | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 3ef55f6 | He was studying me. "You know, you look an awful lot like Sodapop, the way you've got your hair and everything. I mean, except your eyes are green." "They ain't green, they're gray," I said, reddening. "And I look about as much like Soda as you do." I got to my feet. "He's good-looking." "Shoot," Johnny said with a grin, "you are, too."" | S.E. Hinton | ||
| efd9f96 | You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 06315c3 | Stay gold Pony Boy. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 52bb09e | It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning to cope a young boy in my garden is bailing out water from his flower patch when I ask him why he tells me young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily. | black-unicorn coping poem poetry | Audre Lorde | |
| 68e0dac | Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other's difference with respect. | Audre Lorde | ||
| c8f9abe | Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. Over the last few years, writing a novel on tight finances, I came to appreciate the enormous differences in the material demands between poetry and prose. As we reclaim our.. | class gender literature poetry prose race | Audre Lorde | |
| 9e7b41f | The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are -- until the poem -- nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but.. | hope life | Audre Lorde | |
| f451f40 | Every generation of children instinctively nests itself in nature, no matter matter how tiny a scrap of it they can grasp. In a tale of one city child, the poet Audre Lord remembers picking tufts of grass which crept up through the paving stones in New York City and giving them as bouquets to her mother. It is a tale of two necessities. The grass must grow, no matter the concrete suppressing it. The child must find her way to the green, no .. | Jay Griffiths | ||
| ccc387a | This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty going as spoils to the victor or the stronger. So instead of joining together to fight for more, we quarrel between ourselves for a larger slice of the one pie. Black women fight between ourselves o.. | oppression zero-sum-game | Audre Lorde | |
| c21fbf0 | For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others -- for their use and to our detriment. | Audre Lorde | ||
| b5a548e | Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positions and stand by the conclusions thereof. No point is served by a Black male professional who merely whines at the absence of his viewpoint in Black women's work. Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking.. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 8cdc6ee | It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins. | parenting | Audre Lorde | |
| cc77cab | As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be. | intersectionality prejudice | Audre Lorde | |
| fd1174f | It's difficult to talk about double messages without having a twin tongue. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 2df7a1a | Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. | black-poet essayist feminist ny-laureate teacher | Audre Lorde | |
| f1fa518 | One thing has always kept me going--and it's not really courage or bravery, unless that's what courage or bravery is made of--is that sense that there are so many ways in which I'm vulnerable and cannot help but be vulnerable, I'm not going to be more vulnerable by putting weapons of silence in my enemies' hands. Being an open lesbian in the Black community is not easy, although being closeted is even harder. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 77bdfe9 | Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust. | Audre Lorde | ||
| 549a444 | Self-definition has been a responsibility I've wholeheartedly taken on as mine. It's never a duty one should outsource. Of this responsibility, writer and poet Audre Lorde said, "If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and s.. | Janet Mock | ||
| bc6630c | Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy, in the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, harkening to its deepest rhythms so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience whether it is dancing, building a bookcase, writing a poem, or examining an idea. | feminism power-joy self sister-outsider | Audre Lorde | |
| a25af6f | I have died too many deaths that were not mine. | not-mine poetry sequelae | Audre Lorde | |
| a3bc460 | The others laughed and Burt said, "All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!" -- | Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) |