The problem was, I was labeled as trouble – so I was like, ‘Trouble? I’ll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!’ No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.
PINKThe problem was, I was labeled as trouble – so I was like, ‘Trouble? I’ll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!’ No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.
PINKThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor my own sanity, I must love myself in an obsessive and urgent manner. My life depends on it. I am healing.
ALEXANDRA MICHELLEAll should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONJudaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I’ve always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
BEN MARCUSThe beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.
AZEALIA BANKSIt is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
BORIS JOHNSONAllah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYAWhat destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTGuns are part of the American psyche, aren’t they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It’s intrinsic to the American psyche. It’s never going to change.
NICK CAVEThe surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEOur strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it.
BEN CARSONOne of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.
FRED ROGERSThe bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
VLADIMIR LENINA body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
THOMAS PAINEI was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ