"I heard that I was gay before, and I was like "Really?" And then I started thinking: You haven't really made it unless somebody says you're gay. And I was like, "hm. I'm not gay, but thanks for the rumor!""

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Source : "Deon Cole on Conan O'Brien's instincts and being chaperoned at a Prince concert". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 1, 2016.

Deon Cole

#Gay Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rumor Quotes

“You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.”

Source : S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Penguin
“The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.”
“It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.”

Source : Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.151, Harper Collins
“When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.”
“As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished resources, but of potentially catastrophic climate change. It comes from an arrogant refusal by a modern consumerist society to accept limits on its desires. Kirk's idea of the "eternal society" evaporates before the insatiable demands of the Everlasting Now.”
“I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”
“It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.”

Source : David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.47, Yale University Press

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