"WLâ€™s [White Liberals] think all the worldâ€™s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We donâ€™t believe that. Thereâ€™s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. Itâ€™s what separates us from roaches"

-- Paul Farmer

#Believe Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.”
“When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.”
“In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.”
“There must be a cloud in my head, rain keeps falling from my eyes”
“I'm pretty normal. Tthe type of day I love is just like everybody else's. I'm like everybody else.”
“There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2011). “Northwest Corner: A Novel”, p.276, Random House
“I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.”
“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”

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