"A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own...Izzy Rose rocks it."

-- Maria Dahvana Headley

#Mean Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Rose Quotes

“I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?”
“The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.”
“You are the captain of your ship that never comes in”
“Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.”
“Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?”
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan
“My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.”
“When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.”

You may also like:

Amal El-Mohtar
Author
Christopher Barzak
Author
Deb Caletti
Writer
Ken Liu
Fiction writer
Neil Gaiman
Author
Nnedi Okorafor
Writer
Saladin Ahmed
Fiction writer
Robert Dugoni
Author
Robert Schenkkan
Playwright