"Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional."

-- Beth Ditto

#Emotional Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”
“I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.”
“If it's all wrong, it's all right.”
“I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.”
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”
“The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.”

Source : Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2012.
“Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.”
“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”

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