"Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me."

-- Louise Erdrich

#Hate Quotes #Veils Quotes #Longing Quotes

“I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!”
“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person”

Source : John C. Wright (2006). “Fugitives of Chaos”, p.72, Macmillan
“There should be a course in first grade on love.”
“The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.”
“I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.”
“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.”
“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”
“Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.”

Source : "Cissy Houston on Whitney: 'She was raised well, she knew better' than to use drugs" by Randee Dawn, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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