Cheryl Clarke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.
-- Cheryl Clarke

#Fighting #Space #Rooms
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
-- Cheryl Clarke

#America #Males #Culture
The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.
-- Cheryl Clarke

#Lovers #Patriarchy
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny...
-- Cheryl Clarke

#Philosophical #Mean #Political

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Cheryl Clarke famous quotes

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