"So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear."

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Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.9, Harper Collins

Roxane Gay

#Hands Quotes #Reaching Quotes #Reach Out Quotes

“For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.”
“One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.”
“Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.”
“I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.”
“When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.”
“When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows individuals to form a group and to get along with each other, then the challenge is to devise a system that allows different groups to get along - what I call a meta-morality.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'”
“Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.”

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