#tan

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. ↗

— June Jordan

#by the time #extremely #i #important #language

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#focused #important #mind #most #presence

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

#career #chance #everything #gave #great

Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying a bad word? Yes, it was universally considered awful—unwanted, painful, feared—because when it happened it stopped us from moving and being, and we interpreted that as if something had ended. But what if it were actually a beautiful experience? What if, with death, something actually began instead? ↗

— Charles Novacek

#memoir #age

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. ↗

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

#marxism #rape #resistance #revolution #trauma

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#understand #faith

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids. ↗

— David A. Siegel

#good #i #inheritance #kids #leave

The most important influence in my childhood was my father. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#childhood #father #important #influence #most

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#dear #experience #father #profundity #protect

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#everywhere #forced #forcing #governments #nowhere