#sm

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #bored #each #get #hand

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#best way #body #depend #into #mechanisms

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#being #dismayed #failures #human #human being

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it. ↗

— Courtney Love

#answer #any #ask #big #daughter

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#enthusiasm #fear #flags #i #me

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#blue #green #grey #ocean #silent

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environment #favors #leave #nature #organisms

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#because #comic #guy #heaven #him