Favorite Quotations
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the
dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde
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Somehow and for some vague and inane reason,
we have decided it is better to be exploited,
misused, battered and bedraggled than to become disagreeable.
We think that possibly the brute,
who is prepared to treat a victim in the most unkind way,
will be coerced into being more kind if the victim is courteous.
I don't agree. If I am attacked, when I have done nothing to warrant an attack,
or even if I have,
I work myself up into a fury much more explosive than the miscreant can imagine.
I jump into a righteous lather.
And I mean to make myself more to deal with than the brute can handle.
I mean, if I can make myself get mad before I get scared - the evildoer will rue the day.
-Maya Angelou
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Lord, girl, there's only two or three things I know for sure....Only two or three things.
That's right....Of course it's never the same things, and I'm never as sure as I'd like to be.
-Dorothy Allison
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And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful then the risk it took to Blossom.
-Anais Nin
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
-Alice Walker
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
-Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public.
-T-shirt slogan
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What Happens To A Dream Deferred?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
Like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
-Langston Hughes
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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left!
-Unknown
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All of these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
-The Blade Runner
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