"I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else."

-- Ntozake Shange

#Wall Quotes #Want Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.”
“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
“Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.”
“My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.”
“I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: â€œWell, lucky I can do anything at all.”
“We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.”
“There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.”
“We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.”

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