“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.”
― I Am Not Your Negro
― I Am Not Your Negro
“I know trauma uses silence as a survival mechanism.”
― Black Girl, Call Home
― Black Girl, Call Home
“[i]νυκτὸς ἐρεμαίης ἀλαώπιδος...[/i]
Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― The Fragments of Empedocles
Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― The Fragments of Empedocles
“Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“But surely every man is his own god: Fortune refuses her aid to those who merely pray, and take no action.”
― The Fall of Icarus
― The Fall of Icarus
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