#Hundred Quotes #Percent Quotes #Felt Quotes
“To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.”
“There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.”
“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”
“He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.”
Source : Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.36, Penguin
“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
“I have never written anything sexually explicit,”
“I knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that if you turn the dial in one direction, a Muslim is a Jew is an East Asian person is a Native American and so on. I feel very much that all of these struggles are kind of the same and - Hillary Clinton actually said this recently - when you get rid of one barrier, it opens up the gates for a whole bunch of people you didn't even know would benefit from it. So not fighting for the black struggle is like not fighting for the Muslim struggle.”
“We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.”
