#lit

I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#back #care #else #fall #gave

Boy you really missed the boat. I’ll make it simple, so’s even fuckin you can understand. Papa God growed us up till we could wear long pants; then he licensed his name to dollar bills, left some car keys on the table, and got the fuck outta town”. Water rushes to his eye-holes. “Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers”. He takes hold of my shoulders, spins me around, and punches me towards the mirror on the wall. “You’re the God. Take responsibility. Exercise your power ↗

— D.B.C. Pierre

#faith #god #religion #vernon-god-little #faith

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#life #mortality #wealth #death

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#anything #because #groups #i #i see

For me, it was faith that kept me going when I wanted to give up. I knew that God meant for me to fulfill a purpose in life. ↗

— Sarah Darer Littman

#faith

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss. ↗

— Cesar Nascimento

#atheism #belief #rationalism #rationality #religion

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#enemy #faith #jesus #jesus-christ #love

Mystery, like faith, defies human logic. ↗

— Maureen Moss

#poetry-love-spirituality #faith

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#dirty work #i #know #literal #men

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#keep #organization #politics #power #take