"Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out."

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Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Cutting Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.”
“There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)”
“A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.”
“I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”
“Nothing inhibits healing like shame.”
“As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.”
“But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their idealized body image,' and so I think that was the connection for me. I saw that people wanted to have their limbs off with equally as much degree of obsession and need.””
“In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.”

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