"When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it."

-- Marlon Riggs

#Names Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.”
“I used to work the graveyard shift.”
“The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.”

Source : Vera Brittain (2012). “Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby”, p.229, Hachette UK
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
“I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.”
“I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.”
“To build up a future, you have to know the past.”
“I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.”

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