"As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture."

-- Justin Simien

#Tired Quotes #Color Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.”
“People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'”
“Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.”
“Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.”
“When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.”
“I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, youâ€™re going to strengthen that position. If you want to change peopleâ€™s ideas, you shouldnâ€™t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where theyâ€™ll have to act on ideas not argue about them.”
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
“Well having a partner in crime helps a lot! But honestly it doesn't take much to get me psyched. The stage is where I'm most at home, and that has been the case since I was very young. It's where I feel most myself and at ease.”

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