poet
Banned
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Quotes:
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their pain. “
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
“Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. “
” There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. “
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. “
“You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.”
Writer extraordinaire. Activist. Humanitarian. Intellectual. Brilliant. Hero.
Quotes:
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their pain. “
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
“Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. “
” There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. “
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. “
“You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.”
Writer extraordinaire. Activist. Humanitarian. Intellectual. Brilliant. Hero.
Do you think poor pathetic miss thang likes us mocking her putting us on her revolving door IA?