Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Orema]

“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

—James E. Faust

[homoe]

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But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can't please everyone, so don't try. ...:hangloose:

Chris Colfer

[homoe]

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers

[homoe]

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

[Stone-Butch]

There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'
O my Antonio, I do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,
If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,
Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
William Shakespeare

[Orema]

My Body Is a Confederate Monument

“If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they want monuments, well, then, my body is a monument. My skin is a monument.

Dead Confederates are honored all over this country — with cartoonish private statues, solemn public monuments and even in the names of United States Army bases. It fortifies and heartens me to witness the protests against this practice and the growing clamor from serious, nonpartisan public servants to redress it. But there are still those — like President Trump and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell — who cannot understand the difference between rewriting and reframing the past. I say it is not a matter of “airbrushing” history, but of adding a new perspective....

The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?”

— Caroline Randall Williams

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Credit: P.S. Spencer

Caroline Randall Williams will be doing a reading of this essay and answering questions on Instagram (@nytopinion) on Tuesday, June 30 at 7 p.m. Eastern.

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[Bèsame*]

sometimes

you have to learn

how to go with the flow
of life

because sometimes pissing
against the direction

of the wind could backfire at you


Daniel Saint

[C0LLETTE]

sometimes

you have to learn

how to go with the flow
of life

because sometimes pissing
against the direction

of the wind could backfire at you


Daniel Saint





That's quite similar to throwing up over the wrong side of a cruise ship. If you're going to throw up, try to be on the right side. No blow back.

[Stone-Butch]

The biggest threat to our well being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Rick Shuman (in Time)

[C0LLETTE]

The biggest threat to our well being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.

Rick Shuman (in Time)

Moral Clarity : Hard to pin down in more ways than one

The article exerpted below deals mostly with the subject of "moral clarity" vis-a-vis journalism.

"So what is moral clarity? The philosopher Susan Neiman, who wrote a book on the subject, says that it is not, in fact, a statically defined concept: it can be found only on a case-by-case basis. “Moral clarity, however, is about looking at each particular case, looking at all the facts, looking at all the context, and working out your answers,” she stated in a lecture. It should not be confused with moral simplicity: we may have clearly defined moral values, but the quest for the actual position of moral clarity is always complicated and specific to the circumstances. ..."

Masha Gesson
New Yorker
June 24, 2020

[Kätzchen]

Moral Clarity : Hard to pin down in more ways than one

The article exerpted below deals mostly with the subject of "moral clarity" vis-a-vis journalism.

"So what is moral clarity? The philosopher Susan Neiman, who wrote a book on the subject, says that it is not, in fact, a statically defined concept: it can be found only on a case-by-case basis. “Moral clarity, however, is about looking at each particular case, looking at all the facts, looking at all the context, and working out your answers,” she stated in a lecture. It should not be confused with moral simplicity: we may have clearly defined moral values, but the quest for the actual position of moral clarity is always complicated and specific to the circumstances. ..."

Masha Gesson
New Yorker
June 24, 2020

This is excellent, thanks for finding it.

Context is an essential component, in most all cases.

Thanks C0LLETTE.

[Stone-Butch]

Context is not always available and sometimes not needed if one is aware what they are presenting. Time to quit while I am ahead of those that know far more than I obviously do.

[Orema]

First generation immigrants
By Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Here’s to the security guards who maybe had a degree in another land. Here’s to the manicurist who had to leave her family to come here, painting the nails, scrubbing the feet of strangers. Here’s to the janitors who don’t even fucking understand English yet work hard despite it all. Here’s to the fast food workers who work hard to see their family smile. Here’s to the laundry man at the Marriott who told me with the sparkle in his eyes how he was an engineer in Peru.

Here’s to the bus driver, the Turkish Sufi who almost danced when I quoted Rumi. Here’s to the harvesters who live in fear of being deported for coming here to open the road for their future generation. Here’s to the taxi drivers from Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and India who gossip amongst themselves.

Here is to them waking up at 4am, calling home to hear the voices of their loved ones. Here is to their children, to the children who despite it all become artists, writers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, activists and rebels. Here’s to Western Union and Money Gram. For never forgetting home.

Here’s to their children who carry the heartbeats of their motherland and even in sleep, speak with pride about their fathers.

Keep on.

[C0LLETTE]

" If you can't lift the alcohol into your truck, you weren't meant to drink it."

Not a deep thought but might save your life one day.

[Orema]

“but she means to have what she
has earned,
sweet sighs, safe houses,
hands she can trust.”
— Lucille Clifton, “to my friend, Jerina”

He can’t tell I grit my back teeth when he exclaims,
“An allergy to coffee? I’ve never heard of that!”, and I shrug,
as if this is the first time someone has expressed their
incredulity so profoundly, I say, “It happens”. I’m gracious,
calm, I mean if you discount the slightest shortening of my
upper lip, a bit of a curl really, I wouldn’t say a sneer. I
used to explain myself and my faulty body, swim full-tilt into
conversational nets full of marvel and pitying curiosity.
I’ve stopped. Accepted it. And maybe I sigh,
but I mean to have what I

reach for: clean safe air, lungs rounded with ease, the boring
sort of acceptance, a normalised story about my body.
I want chemical masks as quotidian accessories, like umbrellas
or hats. I want the bread-like, unexceptional family violence
that led to this, that sickened and curled me, so many
of us, up inside, like xylem slowly dying inside a turned
tree trunk, unseen but heavy with consequences, to be
recognised, protested, uprooted by outrage and
practical solutions, never-again changes, forever spurned.
We have earned

the revolution. We’ve struggled to see ourselves reflected
in the dirty surface of the mainstream; to meet our bedrock
yearning for safety, gentleness, absence of swinging fists
or planks of wood, of flying spit, sometimes laced with acrid
words; to cobble together access, sometimes cutting wood
planks for a ramp, sometimes asking friends, spouses,
strangers, to change their detergent, give up their
favourite shampoo or deodorant. As abnormal and
inconvenient as we seem, we deserve carefree carouses,
sweet sighs, safe houses,

same as you who can breathe the poison in, let it wash
through your blood, let your liver scrape it all out like a washing
machine while you talk, laugh, sleep, same as you who
can walk far, carry your groceries, can function when the music
is so loud it’s thick in the air, in our breastbones, our brains.
But our differences are rarely invited, planned for, discussed.
So I am a delicate fucking flower; you can’t drink coffee next to
me, or peel an orange, smoke, sip wine, invite me to dance parties.
But I will still surprise you: claim this body and safety and lust,
reach for hands that I can trust.

Found at The Deaf Poets Society - Issue 8
https://www.deafpoetssociety.com/kamila-rina-issue-8

[Orema]

You're so hard on yourself.
Take a moment.
Sit back.
Marvel at your life:
at the grief that softened you,
at the heartache that wisened you,
at the suffering that strengthened you,
Despite everything,
you still grow.
Be proud
of this.

—Anonymous


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[Orema]

Didn’t she used to sell that WAP?

—Cardi B

[PlatinumPearl]

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[clementinefemme]

Love Poem to a Butch Woman by Deborah A. Miranda

This is how it is with me:
so strong, I want to draw the egg
from your womb and nourish it in my own.
I want to mother your child made only
of us, of me, you: no borrowed seed
from any man. I want to re-fashion
the matrix of creation, make a human being
from the human love that passes between
our bodies. Sweetheart, this is how it is:
when you emerge from the bedroom
in a clean cotton shirt, sleeves pushed back
over forearms, scented with cologne
from an amber bottle—I want to open
my heart, the brightest aching slit
of my soul, receive your pearl.
I watch your hands, wait for the sign
that means you'll touch me,
open me, fill me; wait for that moment
when your desire leaps inside me.

[kittygrrl]

Love Poem to a Butch Woman by Deborah A. Miranda

This is how it is with me:
so strong, I want to draw the egg
from your womb and nourish it in my own.
I want to mother your child made only
of us, of me, you: no borrowed seed
from any man. I want to re-fashion
the matrix of creation, make a human being
from the human love that passes between
our bodies. Sweetheart, this is how it is:
when you emerge from the bedroom
in a clean cotton shirt, sleeves pushed back
over forearms, scented with cologne
from an amber bottle—I want to open
my heart, the brightest aching slit
of my soul, receive your pearl.
I watch your hands, wait for the sign
that means you'll touch me,
open me, fill me; wait for that moment
when your desire leaps inside me.

thank you for sharing this..it's beautiful❤

[homoe]

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[C0LLETTE]

“Lying to your listeners ceases to be a viable business model at the point where the lies start killing the listeners."

David Frum, a conservative critic of Trump’s,

[LOQUI]

“If you draw attention because you don't always act like everyone else, congratulations! You're being true to who you really are. To find true success you have to be you.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
Dolly Parton

[C0LLETTE]

Big potatoes are a lot easier to peel than small ones.

You can quote me.

[homoe]

~~~
“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.”

(Norm Crosby quote)

[PlatinumPearl]

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[Kätzchen]

“Lying to your listeners ceases to be a viable business model at the point where the lies start killing the listeners."

David Frum, a conservative critic of Trump’s,

I like how this person decribes the exact scenario pertaining to Covid-19 (if this is what Frum is speaking about). Thanks, C0LLETTE.

[Bèsame*]

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[PlatinumPearl]

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[Orema]

WARNING: OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE

https://www.theroot.com/congress-doesn-t-give-af-about-america-1845716037

More people are dying, businesses are closing, more people are losing their jobs and the people need help and relief. And here we are going on another month with nothing. Mitch McConnell and his crew are fuckwads. They always have been. There is nothing new there. But the inability to work with them is starting to make Pelosi look like she’s holding out for something that is never going to come. Pelosi believes she has leverage by blaming America’s instability on the Republican Party, but the current election proved that is a lie. She has no leverage because she’s forgotten something I learned while out on the streets: You can’t argue with a nigga that don’t give a fuck. Republicans don’t care who dies. They don’t care who is going hungry or losing their jobs, and guess what? Their homeless, hungry, constituents don’t either. At this point, a deal, any deal, needs to be made because America can’t wait until February for something to give.

—Stephen A. Crockett, Jr.

[Stone-Butch]

It's the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it's the little differences that make them interesting.

Todd Ruthman



The only way to make a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Stone-Butch]

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Mark Twain

[Stone-Butch]

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

[PlatinumPearl]

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[homoe]

https://www.cupertino.org/Home/ShowPublishedImage/8875/636891966563670000


This coming Saturday Nov 28th.......

[Orema]

“I thought 50 years ago that I could make a big difference in the world,” Nikki Giovanni said. “What I know now is that I will not allow the world to make a big difference in me.”

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Nikki Giovanni. Credit: Shaban Athuman for The New York Times

[Stone-Butch]

Where one is wise, two are happy.

He is rich he who owes nothing. Unknown.

[Stone-Butch]

The prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets.

The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears.

The kindest hearts have felt the most pain.

(unknown)

[Orema]

I had at last come home.

If there was, in this, some illusion, there was also some truth.

In the years in Paris, I had never been homesick for anything American. Neither waffles, ice cream, hot dogs, baseball, majorettes, movies, nor the Empire State Building, nor Coney Island, nor the Statue of Liberty, nor the Daily News, nor Times Square. All of these things had passed out of me. They might never had existed, and it made absolutely no difference to me if I never saw them again.

But I missed my brothers and sisters, and my mother. They made a difference. I wanted to be able to see them and to see their children. I hoped that they wouldn't forget me. I missed Harlem Sunday mornings and fried chicken and biscuits, and I missed the music. I missed the style... that style possessed by no other people in the world. I missed the way the dark face closes, the way dark eyes watch, and the way, when a dark face opens, a light seems to go everywhere. I missed, in short, my connections, missed the life which had produced me and nourished me and paid for me.

Now, though I was a stranger, I was home.

—James Baldwin.

[Orema]

btw this isn’t the extent of the horrors white supremacists will enact. the real horrors will start as they return to their communities with the high of having broken into the fucking capitol with guns and bombs and having been protected by the police and the president. the real horrors will be enacted on poc and Black ppl specifically now that white supremacists know they can do whatever the fuck they want with guaranteed protection, they will not be enacted on congressmen. it’s not your politicians you have to worry about. pelosi will be just fine.

—Anonymous poster on the Internet

[Orema]

... Many MAGA .sapiens believe that they lived in a Democratic society until Nov. 3, 2020. They actually believed that voter suppression and disenfranchisement had nothing to do with low Black voter turnout. These motherfucker truly believed that Black people just didn’t like to vote.

And that’s not racism. That’s white supremacy.

Part of the reason white folks think they live in a democratic republic is that they don’t know shit about Black history. Because white history is deemed more important, they don’t understand that the mass murders during Reconstruction reconfigured American politics more than the Civil War. They don’t understand that the civil rights movement wasn’t about going to white schools and eating at white lunch counters, it was about democracy.

The story of the civil rights movement is more important than the Cuban missile crisis. Slavery is more important to understanding the American economy than the development of the light bulb, the automobile and the telephone combined.

You can’t comprehend this country’s geographical makeup without studying the Great Migration. You can’t understand how America won the War of 1812 without understanding the German Coast Uprising (https://ushistoryscene.com/article/german-coast-uprising/). You can’t understand police without understanding slave patrols. You can’t understand America’s gun culture and the Second Amendment (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/second-amendment-slavery-james-madison.html) unless you learn about slave revolts.

—Michael Harriet, journalist at The Root.

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

[Stone-Butch]

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[VintageFemme]

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

-Lemony Snicket

[Bèsame*]

Time well spent
Beholding the
Beauty of the
Here and now

https://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/photos_of_australia_coming_back_to_life_after_the_ bushfi-19.jpg

The sight of Australia coming back

[homoe]

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[Stone-Butch]

It is not the light that we need but fire, it is not the gentle shower, but thunderstorm. We need the storm, the whirlwind and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglas

[homoe]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.” ― Mitch Albom

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Just be a good person,
Love who you can,
Help where you can,
Give what you can...

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“When you do things from the soul,
You feel a river moving in you,
A joy...

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

”Throw out your conceited opinion,
For it is impossible for a person to begin to learn
what he thinks he already knows.”

~ Epictetus, Discourse, 2.17.1

[Kätzchen]

"Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it," ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

[Reach *BANNED*]

“True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.” ― Oprah Winfrey

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” ― Germany Kent

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.” ― Shannon L. Alder

[homoe]

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[PlatinumPearl]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” ― Michelle Obama

[Reach *BANNED*]

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”

― Suzy Kassem

[homoe]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CE0OEjpWYAAm16U.jpg:large

[Stone-Butch]

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald Gannon




Truth is the best vindication against slander.

Abe Lincoln

[PlatinumPearl]

https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ZFuUCslujdAkC1Pxc5raJAHaHW&pid=Api&P=0&w=1500&h=1500

[Stone-Butch]

Where is there dignity if there is no honesty?

Cicero


Education has for its' object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

[PlatinumPearl]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

"It's a beautiful thing to have someone see you as you are... but it 's pure magic when someone can show you who you could be." - Anonymous

[Reach *BANNED*]

"And then I learned that the spiritual journey had nothing to do with being nice. It was about being real, authentic. Having boundaries. Honoring my space first, And in this space of self-care being nice just happened, it flowed not motivated by fear but by love." - Michelle Olak

[Bèsame*]

Everything happens for a reason.
Don't question the process.
Trust it and be patient.

[Reach *BANNED*]

“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.” ― Suzy Kassem

[Reach *BANNED*]

“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.” ― Aimee Bender

[Reach *BANNED*]

“There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.” ― J. Donald Adams

[Orema]

Courage is the reward for doing things you were afraid of doing.
—Ellen Burstyn

[Stone-Butch]

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A.C. Benson

What a wonderful thing is mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.

Ranjan Bakshi

[Reach *BANNED*]

“You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

[Bèsame*]

The Rule Is...

you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out into the world.


Sandra Bullock

[Stone-Butch]

For one who finds true love he must cherish it and nurture it and is fortunate indeed. For one who is persistent on pursuing an unrequited love is a fool.

J.A. Colter

Great literature is like a love affair: you lose your own self and blend with another sensibility. It liberates you from your ego.

Lord Gowrie

[PlatinumPearl]

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[PlatinumPearl]

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[Orema]

A reporter asked Fran Leibowitz, who is 70-years old, when did she know she was a lesbian. Here’s her reply:

“This is something that’s very hard to explain to young people today. Being gay, it was illegal then. Forget fighting for gay marriage, how about just trying not to go to jail? So you never saw it, it was never talked about, it didn’t exist in the world. So if I had not seen occasional mentions of it in books, I would never have heard of it. I had a friend who grew up in a very blue-collar environment in Wilmington, Delaware, and she thought she was the only [lesbian] in the world, and that was a common thing then. I have a very vivid memory of when I was 12 and in the backyard reading, and I remember having this exact thought: ‘Well, I suppose if there’s such a thing in the world as lesbians then someone has to be them. But why does it have to be me?’ Because I instantly knew that I could not live like that in the world I was living in, and I was pretty happy in that world. Of course, what most people did was they stayed in that world and pretended to be straight, but that never occurred to me.”

From this (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/28/fran-lebowitz-if-people-disagree-with-me-so-what) article in The Guardian.

[PlatinumPearl]

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[Orema]

https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/forgiveness-quotes-15.jpg
—Anonymous

[Bèsame*]

Happiness is an inside job.

[Reach *BANNED*]

“If you walked away from a

toxic, negative, abusive,

one-sided, dead-end

low vibrational

relationship or friendship

— you won.” ― Lalah Delia

[Reach *BANNED*]

“There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.” ― Germany Kent

[cathexis]

Never heard this until being shuffled to NY.

"I'm gonna beat you like a redheaded step-child."

It was said by my partner's brother in a joking fashion, and I have red hair.

[PlatinumPearl]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA4vWNCWYAsN36F?format=jpg&name=small

[Stone-Butch]

The surest way to lose a friend is to tell them something for their own good.
Sid Archer


Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.
Sydney J. Harris

[Kätzchen]

https://yourpositiveoasis.com/wp-content/gallery/25-inspiring-and-positive-quotes/IMG_8322.JPG

[Kätzchen]

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/25/55/554409432-Positive_energy_quote.jpg

[Orema]

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https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/b5/77/8fb5779f5f53caa6b4396e303603beb3.png

[Orema]

https://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/achebe-quotes2.jpg

—Chinua Achebe

[Stone-Butch]

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Margaret Mead

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the oldl home you missed but your childhood. Sam Ewing

[Orema]

https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/files/2020/07/The-way-were-taught.jpg

[VintageFemme]

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

- Seth Godin

[Stone-Butch]

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightening.
Thomas Fuller

[Stone-Butch]

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightening.
Thomas Fuller

[Stone-Butch]

Age does not protect you from love . But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
David B. Norris

[Reach *BANNED*]

Age does not protect you from love . But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
David B. Norris


This is just truth, SB. Thank you for sharing them both.

[Reach *BANNED*]

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett

[Reach *BANNED*]

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

[Orema]

Structural transformation will not happen without personal transformation.
—Robin Diangelo, Scholar

[Stone-Butch]

Most people want to be delivered from temptation, but would like it to keep in touch.------------Robert Orden



In this era of rapid change, one thing remains constant, it's easier to pray for forgiveness than to resist temptation-------- Sol Kendon

[Kätzchen]

Be a sunflower and turn to the light wherever you are (K. Tolnoe).

https://images.app.goo.gl/iqiKuNn6zVvX5bSr9

[Stone-Butch]

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams


Any time you think you have influence, try ordering another persons' dog around.
The Cockle Bur


IT does not matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was.
Ann Sexton

[Orema]

Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.

— from Fitlosophy Fitdesk calendar

[Stone-Butch]

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.--Anne McCaffery

[Stone-Butch]

If youth only knew. If age only could.

Henri Estienne


A young boy is a theory; an old man is a fact.

Ed Howe

[Orema]

Don't get too big for your britches.
— Mama

[homoe]

~~~
"The Mailman Doesn't Take His Bag On A Walk On His Day Off"
Isabelle Lucile Wilderspin

[Stone-Butch]

Giving advice when you don't know the whole situation is like diving in to save a drowning person when you yourself can't swim. L.M. Chambers

[homoe]

"The Poor House is Right Around the Corner"

Ernest John Seymour..

[Stone-Butch]

When a woman says*Ah, I could love you if..." fear not, she already loves you.
Walter Pulitzer



Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Langston Hughes.

[Orema]

No one should be forced to give birth.

— almost anyone who has been forced

[Stone-Butch]

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Walter Winkler


Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Cristian Anderson


The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually to be fearing you will make one. Albert Hubert

[StillettoDoll]

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted for desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

- Robert Frost

[StillettoDoll]

It's time for Women Church.

Here, we enter the pews
in our hearts
and listen to the sermon or our hips.

We worship the holy trinity:
Maiden , Mother , Crone

The softness of our bodies is our primary temple,
we revere curves and plentifulness
and dance to celebrate it , if we like.

Our sacrament is seconds on everything we desire
and here we heap our plates.

We delight in the holy doctrine of supporting deep nourishment
and singing sacred praise to our sisters.

We tell our stories and braid each others hair
while we pray
sitting in a circle
announcing our power,
our tenderness,
our beauty,
our voices,
our grief.

We invite the ancestors in for tea
and bring all cast-out feelings in from the cold.

We paint pictures of goddess relaxing and taking
a much needed break
while gods massage her feet
with oils and feed her grapes.

-Chelan Harkin

[JDeere]

Lyrics from Son Of A Sinner, that are applying to me currently.

I never get lonely, I get these ghosts to keep me company, I took the rearview off this old Ford, So I only see in front me of.

Jellyroll

[StillettoDoll]

People that are different have a shot of being original they get motivation


-Jim Carrey

[StillettoDoll]

All SALES FINAL
Time is one way we try to measure love
because our days are non-refundable
relationships don't offer refunds
quite a price to pay for our fleeting existence
love has a hefty price tag if time is our currency

I offer you a pen and my checkbook
and I ask you to be financially responsible
you don't have to be fugal
but I pray you spend my time well
hoping you understand the economy of my heart

I meet girls and ask myself, Are we wasting our time?
We spend time money, love, hate, sex and bartering
so many different currencies to pay with
my heart and dick want to empty the bank for you
but my brain ponders if your worth my time

Hearts must be spent in the world
love does not accrue interest like a saving account
love must be shared, but it drives a hard bargain
I hope you spend wisely
because we can never get it back

-Franco Cardiello

[Orema]

Your dream doesn't have an expiriation date. Take a deep breath and try again.
—K.T. Witten

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing, not a mere pleasurable feeling or fleeting emotion but an optimal state of being.” – Matthieu Ricard

[Reach *BANNED*]

“There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.”
― Nikki Rowe

[gurlnextdoor]

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao Tzu

[gurlnextdoor]

“Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, We will fall!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
And so they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.”

― Guillaume Apollinaire

[Reach *BANNED*]

No matter how many times I read this - it is always timely and true. It is a good reminder to everyone.





“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” – Lao Tzu

[Reach *BANNED*]

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” ― Pema Chödrön

[Reach *BANNED*]

"Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a child and adult that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering of who you were before the world got it's hands on you" - Anonymous

[Reach *BANNED*]

“People tend to be resentful when you refuse to lower your standards or join their misery.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz


“The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.” – Robert E. Baine, Jr.

[cathexis]

“People tend to be resentful when you refuse to lower your standards or join their misery.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz


“The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.” – Robert E. Baine, Jr.


If you do not care if the World writes something online, it doesn't automatically mean you must repeat the comment. If one does repeat it becomes the owner's personal statement.---myself

[Orema]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/5e/43/37/5e433744b2e7e0cedba8c4a896cda52d.jpg

[Bèsame*]

https://www.quotemaster.org/images/s_36/36dddeb7e5ed9e6559f3befac910fdbb.jpg

[Orema]

https://kitschmix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Quotes-Celebrities-Coming-Out-01.png

[PlatinumPearl]

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[kittygrrl]

"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

[Orema]

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

[Kätzchen]

"History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy," ~ President Joseph Biden

(Quote excerpted from his Battle For The Soul Of The Nation speech on September 1st, 2022).

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.” ― Nicholas Sparks

[gurlnextdoor]

And then I realized
that to be
more alive
I had to
be less
afraid
so
I did it…
I lost my
fear
and gained
my whole life.

By Unknown

[gurlnextdoor]

i know you are busy
but stop for a moment---
the day didn't go your way
but you were alive and experienced it.

so

stop for a moment and look around you
are you safe?
are you fed?
is there beauty around you?
count those blessings.

so

stop for a moment
close your eyes
what do you feel?
what do you hear?
is this place home?

so

stop,
appreciate,
and then,

open your eyes !

i just did and it's wonderful!

written by gurl

[Reach *BANNED*]

“To have a caring and committed heart toward someone—a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person’s state of health, appearance, reputation, finances, troubles, or challenges that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find.” — Richelle E. Goodrich

[kittygrrl]

Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No.
It is immortal as immaculate Truth,
'Tis not a blossom shed as soon as youth,
Drops from the stem of life—for it will grow,
In barren regions, where no waters flow,
Nor rays of promise cheats the pensive gloom.
A darkling fire, faint hovering o'er a tomb,
That but itself and darkness nought doth show,
It is my love's being yet it cannot die,
Nor will it change, though all be changed beside;
Though fairest beauty be no longer fair,
Though vows be false, and faith itself deny,
Though sharp enjoyment be a suicide,
And hope a spectre in a ruin bare.

[Reach *BANNED*]

"The trees are about to tell us how lovely it is to let things go." - Unknown

[gurlnextdoor]

i'm listening to the rain pitter patter as it caresses the trees
and drips
it's soothing and calming.
i stare mesmorized by the drips as my pulse counts them
i wonder where they land...
are they quenching a toad's thirst?
are they bonking a salamander on the head as it blinks?
are they making a worm thankful?

i am thankful to the rain
i am thankful for the rain
i sit deep in thought
thankful

by
gurl

[Orema]

All you need is one yes, girl, and you just go on through the door. What are you gonna do with your yes?
—Katori Hall's mama

[Kätzchen]

"It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters."
(click for link to quote (https://hips.hearstapps.com/ghk.h-cdn.co/assets/18/04/life-long-friendship-quote.jpg?crop=1.0xw:1xh;center,top&resize=768:*))

[Orema]

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. —Alice Walker

[Stone-Butch]

Ultracrepidarians are people who speak their opinion on a topic about which the know nothing.
Unknown

[Bèsame*]

Funny how we outgrow the things we thought we'd never live without.

And then we fall in love with things we never thought we wanted.

Life will keep leading us on journeys that we wouldn't go on if it was up to us. Don't be afraid.

Find the lessons in life and trust the journey. Okay?

Okay

[Orema]

The things you regret most in life are the risks you didn't take. —Farhan Masood

[deb0670]

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Bèsame*]

Everyone has a story and everyone has been thru something that has changed them...

So you should never judge a person by the chapter you walk in on.

[Genesis]

w4XmPTYbL4g

Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.
Imagine, a suspended ocean,
riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

All souls have drowned in it,
and now dwell there.
One drop of that ocean is hope,
and the rest is fear.
Rumi 💙

Music by Karen Homayounfar
Track title: Ghessey-e-Paria VIII

[Bèsame*]

https://i0.wp.com/quotesempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Don%E2%80%99t-fall-in-love-so-easily-it%E2%80%99s-best-to-take-your-time.-Love-is-built-on-trust-and-trust-is-built-on-acceptance.-Acceptance-is-built-on-friendship-and-a-strong-friendship-takes-time-to-build..png?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1

[Orema]

Mom
—Tyre Nichols

[PlatinumPearl]

https://cdn4.sharechat.com/jokerquotes_165030a5_1633673335205_sc_cmprsd_40.jp g

[Kätzchen]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRNrex7kHvPy_mhS017E8Ha_uKVcXOCZ yKWwA&usqp=CAU

[kittygrrl]

goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes..because
for those who love with their heart and soul
there is no such thing as separation-rumi

[AlexF]

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu

[AlexF]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt

Abraham Lincoln -

[kittygrrl]

https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1311832815/photo/sea-tide-on-a-cloudy-night.jpg?b=1&s=170667a&w=0&k=20&c=RHG__hScJgKIjBVWnLXyOqRH6NzAf-BOm4j-p-fkMu0=For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought-
from The Faerie Queene

[AlexF]

“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

[kittygrrl]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Romeo & Juliet

[StillettoDoll]

Our mistakes do not make us, if you believe that,
then your mistaken.

-Pandora owl

[kittygrrl]

"the Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you" Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Orema]

Who else would we be if no one understands us but we? —Queen Latifah

[Orema]

I don’t want to put more negativity into the world. The world needs light and love and compassion for idiots. I’m working on it. —Pink

[Kätzchen]

“My heart is with everyone whose lives were destroyed this week,” — Pete Davidson from Saturday Night Live.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/15/entertainment/pete-davidson-snl-opening/index.html

Pete’s dad was a firefighter who died during the 9/11 attacks (NYC), when he was a little boy.

[Orema]

If your dream only includes you, it’s too small.
—Ana DuVernay

[Stone-Butch]

Every flower is a sould blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval

The human spirit needs places where naure has not been rearranged by the hand of man,. Unknown

For greed, all nature is too little. Lucius A. Seneca

[Kätzchen]

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[kittygrrl]

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

[Kätzchen]

"The only people who can see the whole picture" he murmured,
"are the ones who step out of the frame."

~ Salman Rushdie
(The Ground Beneath Her Feet,1999).

This strand of thought by Salman Rushdie has always prompted me to be brave enough to leave group-think types of processing in what we see and read and hear about in life. I’ve found that it is true, to do as Rushdie suggests we do when we need to consider the whole entire unseeable picture. Step out of the “frame” and before too long, you will see what the real story and consequences are to consider.

[Stone-Butch]

Speak when you are angry an you will make the best speech you will ever

regret. Lawrence J. Peters

[Orema]

The road to success is always under construction. —Anonymous

Love this quote. Whether the road is to a romantic relationship, a better job, a new lifestyle, a larger bank account, whatever it is, it’s not always easy getting from point A to B. There may be detours, lanes closed, back-to-back traffic, may be stray animals in the road you have to dodge, Mr. Mayhem could be tryna distract you. You may get tired of waiting and take a quicker path (good luck with that). You never know what you’ll come across on the road to success. Being patient, careful and keeping your eyes on the road (and not the rear-view mirror) will help get you where you want to go.

[Stone-Butch]

Life only comes around once , so do whatever makes you happy and be with whoever makes you smile.
Author Unknown,

[kittygrrl]

"The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—" Shelley

[kittygrrl]

I must forget thy dark eyes' love-fraught gaze,
Thy voice, that fill'd me with emotion bland,
Thy vows, which lost me in this 'wild'ring maze,
The thrilling pressure of thy gentle hand--M.W. Shelley

[Orema]

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

Alan Watts

[Orema]

“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.”
― Billie Holiday

[kittygrrl]

"Love is the water of life"
rumi

[ksrainbow]

The road to success is always under construction. —Anonymous

Love this quote. Whether the road is to a romantic relationship, a better job, a new lifestyle, a larger bank account, whatever it is, it’s not always easy getting from point A to B. There may be detours, lanes closed, back-to-back traffic, may be stray animals in the road you have to dodge, Mr. Mayhem could be tryna distract you. You may get tired of waiting and take a quicker path (good luck with that). You never know what you’ll come across on the road to success. Being patient, careful and keeping your eyes on the road (and not the rear-view mirror) will help get you where you want to go.

Perfect description Orema!

[Kätzchen]

Friends are the angels that lift us up when our wings forget how to fly (author unknown).

[Bèsame*]

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[Orema]

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
― Warren Wiersbe, pastor and writer

[Orema]

Regarding racism and homophobia; when you hold us down you stunt your own growth.

https://i.postimg.cc/SQz5NHw8/IMG-0039.webp (https://postimages.org/)

[Kätzchen]

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[Kätzchen]

https://www.godhdwallpapers.com/wallpapers/2019/03/gautam-buddha-wallpapers-with-quotes.jpg

[Bèsame*]

https://shershegoes.com/wp-content/uploads/travel-quotes.jpg

[Orema]

What kept me sane was knowing things would change and
it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

—Nina Simone—

https://i.postimg.cc/vH8sGsVw/IMG-0045.webp (https://postimages.org/)

[kittygrrl]

never say never

[Orema]

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.

— Ava DuVernay —

https://i.postimg.cc/9FpB4Gkx/IMG-0074.webp (https://postimages.org/)

Some days (like today) I love Ava and some days not so much. The same is with Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. They didn’t tell their stories to make us feel better, they told them to make us face some truths. I’m not in the mood for truths today, just some advice.

[Kätzchen]

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.

— Ava DuVernay —

https://i.postimg.cc/9FpB4Gkx/IMG-0074.webp (https://postimages.org/)

Some days (like today) I love Ava and some days not so much. The same is with Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. They didn’t tell their stories to make us feel better, they told them to make us face some truths. I’m not in the mood for truths today, just some advice.



Copy that, skkkkk skkkkk (love your quote today!!)

Will do. Will ignore the proverbial glass ceiling and keep being the person I am. I hope you have a fabulous day today❣️❣️❣️

[Stone-Butch]

Never stop learning, cause life never stops teaching.

Thomas Quinn

[Kätzchen]

”Don’t ever be ashamed of the strange things that make your little weird heart happy,” — Elizabeth Gilbert.

:stillheart::stillheart::stillheart::stillheart:

[Kätzchen]

“When the power of love overcomes the love for power, then the world will know peace,” — Jimi Hendrix.


“When you do something, you should burn yourself up like a good bon fire— leaving no trace of yourself,” — Shunryu Suzuki.

[Stone-Butch]

I think this would apply to women too.

https://youtu.be/6SfPf-_OavY?si=VlprUT7k23roY10h




















IF.. Rudyard Kipling.

[Kätzchen]

”Synchronicity is not a name or word that characterizes an organizing principle; but like the name or word Archetype, it characterizes a modality,” — Carl Jung in Letters Vol. II, pp. 445-449. :cherry::wine::blueheels:

[Kätzchen]

“Our differences do not separate us; our differences are the source of our strength,” — Vice President, Democratic Nominee for the United States 2024 Presidential Election, Kamala Harris.

[Stone-Butch]

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.

Emily Dickinson

[Kätzchen]

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented,” — Elie Wiesel

[Kätzchen]

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[Bèsame*]

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[A. Spectre]

"Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry."

Rod Serling





This quote is quite prescient in light of the current madness enveloping the GOP.

Being a huge fan of The Twilight Zone his insights of his time dovetails into what is happening right now!

Serling's time in Leyte shaped his writing and political views for the rest of his life. He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him. Serling led the funeral services for Levy and placed a Star of David over his grave.[2]: 45  Serling later set several of his scripts in the Philippines and used the unpredictability of death as a theme in much of his writing.[2]: 46  In the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Purple Testament", a prologue written by Serling stated, "Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Philippine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight, as if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear—yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat, and these are the faces of war."

His daughter Anne Sterling is very proud of her father, I wrote to her last year stating the admiration I have with her dad. I didn't expect a reply, but she wrote back with a warm "thank you."

[A. Spectre]

FIRST THEY CAME

By Martin Niemöller


First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.

[Kätzchen]

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[kittygrrl]

not sure where where i found this but i do love it

'and I knew when I entered her I was
high wind in her forests hollow
fingers whispering sound
honey flowed
from the split cup
impaled on a lance of tongues
on the tips of her breasts on her navel
and my breath'
howling into entrances
through lungs of pain…

[Kätzchen]

“They say that time changes things,
but you actually have to change them yourself,”

— Andy Warhol.:cherry::moonstars::blueheels:

[kittygrrl]

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Dr Martin Luther King Jr

[Kätzchen]

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another women. We should raise each other up,” — Serena Williams (Women’s tennis champion).