"I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well."

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June Jordan

#Believe Quotes #Views Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.”
“As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.”
“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?”

Source : "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.
“I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.”
“To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.”
“Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.”
“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.”
“I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.”

Source : "Josh Hutcherson Dishes on the Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 21, 2009.

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