"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

-- Audre Lorde

#Sex Quotes #Race Quotes #Long Quotes

“So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”
“I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.”
“The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.”
“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”
“if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”
“Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.”
“Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.”

Source : Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.352, Courier Dover Publications

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