"We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother."

-- Buddy Wakefield

#Mean Quotes #Roots Quotes #Needs Quotes

“In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.”
“For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.”

Source : "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.
“Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.”
“Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2007). “A Plea for Eros: Essays”, p.41, Macmillan
“The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.”
“Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.”
“We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.”
“By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .”

Source : Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

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