"Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Writing Quotes #Justice Quotes #Demand Quotes

“In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.”
“Every thought of God is prayer.”
“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.”
“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.”
“I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.”
“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan
“Odd that a thing is most itself when likened”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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