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“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.”
Source : Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.119, Courier Dover Publications
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“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.”
Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr
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“A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.”
Source : Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House prologue (1975)
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“The walls were down, the only thing I could do was rebuild.”
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“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
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“More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.”
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“Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens.”
Source : Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.7, Open Road Media
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“The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.”
Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
