"I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me"

-- Staceyann Chin

#Keys Quotes #World Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”
“Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and I find out that I need to know more. Then I usually get intrigued and excited about whatever it is I'm writing about.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.”
“When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.”
“In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.”
“The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.”
“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent you learn, in a word, femininity.”

Source : "Only Words". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1993.

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