"There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way."

-- W. Kamau Bell

#Race Quotes #Break Through Quotes #White Quotes

“I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.”
“The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.”
“It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”
“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”
“If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 10, 2012
“Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...”
“As you get older, you welcome people into your family because siblings get married and have kids. But then people also get divorces and things like that, and sometimes there's an exit from the family.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.”

Source : Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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