Charles

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view I hold dear.”
― Daniel Dennett

“I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.”
― Kate Bornstein, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws

“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen J. Gould