Dr. Olivia gasped, shaking her head. “My God, what has become of these men who are supposed to protect us?”
“When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.”
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“Men can love you and still want to fuck other bitches. Your job is to keep him so satisfied so that he is too caught up in you to sleep around.”
― Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks
― Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks
“When you don’t do your job, you get fired. That’s your warning.”
― Big Daddy Sinatra: There Was a Ruthless Man
― Big Daddy Sinatra: There Was a Ruthless Man
“Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh, no! She's up.”
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.”
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