"People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict."

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

#Tired Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.”
“Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
“I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.”
“What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.”
“Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?”
“The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd
“You can't lie to your soul.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.363, Random House
“Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.”

Source : 'Sicelides' (performed 1614) act 3, sc. 5

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