"We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics."

-- Susan J. Douglas

#Fun Quotes #Race Quotes #Media Quotes

“Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...”

Source : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
“Iâ€™m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.â€ â€œI thought your mother was dead.â€ â€œShe is.â€ â€œYou have a very low standard for communication.”
“I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.”
“You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.”
“We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.”
“Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.”

Source : Patrick Jones (2011). “The Tear Collector”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.”
“Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.”

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