Marlon Riggs famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Justice #Silence #Soul
My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Struggle #Gay #Men
Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Men #Black #Revolutionary
As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.
-- Marlon Riggs

#People #Long #Use
It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Abomination
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Self #Confession #Pretense
When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Names #Knowing #Firsts
Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
-- Marlon Riggs

#Silence #Weapons #Shields

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

Marlon Riggs famous quotes

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