"all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people."

-- Rita Mae Brown

#Struggle Quotes #People Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”
“Songs really tend to connect.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
“Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.”
“When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.15
“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”

Source : "The Control of Nature". Book by John McPhee, 1989.
“Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.”
“Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.”

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