"It is not a womanâ€™s duty to disclose that sheâ€™s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans."

-- Janet Mock

#Lying Quotes #Focus Quotes #Safe Quotes

“That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.”
“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.”

Source : "Here I Stand". Book by Paul Robeson, p. 124, 1958.
“One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.”
“Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.”
“Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.”
“You can't just place your faith and your hope in one system, because when that system fails you, what do you do?”
“Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.”

Source : George Herbert Palmer (2006). “The Nature of Goodness”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.
“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”

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