Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.
it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
The authority of science. . . promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. . . . Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. . . . In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.
I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.
When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn't feel he could fully commit to a creative life - he had this voice in the back of his head that said, "I need to make money. " So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years.