#rebel

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#rebellion #than #thing #worse

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #go #into #long #rebel

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it. ↗

— Curt Flood

#baseball #rebellion #relevant #socially

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#enough #gain #ironically #lead #rebelling

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #bandit #bear #book #crowd

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#base #converted #creed #desert #fear

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker? ↗

— Brenda Lee

#i #rebellious #rocker #slightly #tomboy

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. ↗

— Maya Lin

#against #antisocial #failed #fundamentally #i

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basic #continuing #culture #find #get