They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman - and I was not taking that. As a trans woman - as a proud black trans woman - I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize and hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.
My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
TAKE, v. t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i. e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights. . . [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.
It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most. . . . It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.
Love has more force than a besieging army.