"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."

-- Audre Lorde

#Inspiring Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.”
“Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide.”
“A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.”
“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.111, Hachette UK
“When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.”

Source : "Didier Drogba: Chelsea needs win streak before thinking about title". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. January 19, 2011.
“There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.”
“All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.”

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