Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 947

Genesis · 06-23-2016, 10:10 AM

Genesis · 06-23-2016, 10:11 AM

BestButchBoy · 06-25-2016, 08:14 AM

"When one chapter passes, all it means is that a new one is going to begin, and it’s likely to be more positive than the last. What’s the next chapter for me? No idea. All I know for sure is that new chapters create amazing people who go out there and change the world."

Jesse · 06-26-2016, 03:24 AM

Orema · 06-27-2016, 08:16 AM

The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.—actor and humanitarian, Jesse Williams

Orema · 06-27-2016, 10:25 AM

“This award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students, that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.

All right? It’s kind of basic mathematics:, the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.

Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.

Now — I’ve got more, y’all. Yesterday would’ve been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday, so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Darrien Hunt.

Now the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t going to stop this. All right? Now dedicating our lives to get money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies.

There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done, there’s been no tax they haven’t levied against us, and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she would’ve been alive if she hadn’t acted so… “free.”

Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter. But, you know what though? The hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get a couple of things straight, just a little side note: The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right, stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.

We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though, the thing is that just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we’re not real.”

Actor and humanitarian, Jesse Williams, speech given after receiving BET's Humanatarian Award, June 26, 2016

LOQUI · 06-27-2016, 02:58 PM

"Anything that costs you your peace
is too expensive."

- Unknown (at least to me)-

Jesse · 06-27-2016, 07:17 PM

Hmm...seems the internet monster ate the last quote I posted.

BestButchBoy · 06-28-2016, 06:30 AM

Beginning today,
treat everyone
you meet
as if
they were
going to be
dead
by midnight.
Extend them
all the
care,
kindness
and
understanding
you
can muster.
Your life
will never
be the same again.
OG MANDINO

BullDog · 06-28-2016, 12:16 PM

"I remember every player - every single one - who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, or in a correctional institution as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway."

- Pat Summitt
from her book Sum It Up

RIP Pat. I am so fortunate to have seen you coach at the Summitt in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville. It was an unbelievable experience. My heart bleeds orange.

TL1 · 06-29-2016, 06:12 AM

"We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."

-Robert Fulghum

LOQUI · 06-29-2016, 07:42 PM

"Everything that irritates us about others
Can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung -

ThorClaxton · 06-29-2016, 10:40 PM

LOQUI · 06-30-2016, 03:36 AM

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

- Sun Tzu -

Jesse · 06-30-2016, 04:42 AM

LOQUI · 06-30-2016, 10:59 AM

"Sometimes you can get so busy
trying to be someone else's anchor
that you don't even realize that you are actually drowning."

LOQUI · 07-04-2016, 12:05 AM

"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half."

-Unknown-

Bubala · 07-06-2016, 10:17 PM

BestButchBoy · 07-10-2016, 06:58 AM

gotoseagrl · 07-12-2016, 01:53 AM

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Eckhart Tolle

06-25-2016, 08:14 AM	#18923
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,459 Times in 2,038 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Change The World "When one chapter passes, all it means is that a new one is going to begin, and it’s likely to be more positive than the last. What’s the next chapter for me? No idea. All I know for sure is that new chapters create amazing people who go out there and change the world."

06-26-2016, 03:24 AM	#18924
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,793 Times in 3,939 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	__________________ “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 widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

06-27-2016, 10:25 AM	#18926
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her, shawty Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,028 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,083 Thanked 34,099 Times in 8,593 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	Jesse Williams BET Awards Speech “This award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students, that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. All right? It’s kind of basic mathematics:, the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you. Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours. Now — I’ve got more, y’all. Yesterday would’ve been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday, so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Darrien Hunt. Now the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t going to stop this. All right? Now dedicating our lives to get money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies. There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done, there’s been no tax they haven’t levied against us, and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she would’ve been alive if she hadn’t acted so… “free.” Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter. But, you know what though? The hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get a couple of things straight, just a little side note: The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right, stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down. We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though, the thing is that just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we’re not real.” Actor and humanitarian, Jesse Williams, speech given after receiving BET's Humanatarian Award, June 26, 2016

06-27-2016, 07:17 PM	#18928
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,793 Times in 3,939 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	Hmm...seems the internet monster ate the last quote I posted. __________________ “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 widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

06-28-2016, 12:16 PM	#18930
BullDog Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Dominant Stone Butch Daddy Preferred Pronoun?: She Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: In A Healing Place Posts: 5,371 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,160 Thanked 22,782 Times in 4,470 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	"I remember every player - every single one - who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, or in a correctional institution as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway." - Pat Summitt from her book Sum It Up RIP Pat. I am so fortunate to have seen you coach at the Summitt in Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville. It was an unbelievable experience. My heart bleeds orange. __________________ Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke

06-23-2016, 10:10 AM	#18921
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,392 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,594 Thanked 14,633 Times in 6,270 Posts Rep Power: 21474856

06-23-2016, 10:11 AM	#18922
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,392 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,594 Thanked 14,633 Times in 6,270 Posts Rep Power: 21474856

06-27-2016, 08:16 AM	#18925
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her, shawty Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,028 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,083 Thanked 34,099 Times in 8,593 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.—actor and humanitarian, Jesse Williams

06-27-2016, 02:58 PM	#18927
LOQUI Member How Do You Identify?: Butch, Non Binary, Trans, Always Me. :) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,139 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,335 Thanked 2,486 Times in 848 Posts Rep Power: 19030326	"Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive." - Unknown (at least to me)-

06-28-2016, 06:30 AM	#18929
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,459 Times in 2,038 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. OG MANDINO

06-29-2016, 06:12 AM	#18931
TL1 Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch of stone Preferred Pronoun?: The guy kind Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: NC Posts: 2,891 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,107 Thanked 3,460 Times in 1,006 Posts Rep Power: 21474847	"We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love." -Robert Fulghum __________________ "Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts”

06-29-2016, 07:42 PM	#18932
LOQUI Member How Do You Identify?: Butch, Non Binary, Trans, Always Me. :) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,139 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,335 Thanked 2,486 Times in 848 Posts Rep Power: 19030326	"Everything that irritates us about others Can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung -

06-29-2016, 10:40 PM	#18933
ThorClaxton Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Yes Sir or hey You... either will suffice. Relationship Status: Free falling Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Cali Posts: 3 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4 Thanked 5 Times in 2 Posts Rep Power: 0	__________________ Coffee, 'cause crack is bad for you!

06-30-2016, 03:36 AM	#18934
LOQUI Member How Do You Identify?: Butch, Non Binary, Trans, Always Me. :) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,139 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,335 Thanked 2,486 Times in 848 Posts Rep Power: 19030326	"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu -

06-30-2016, 04:42 AM	#18935
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,793 Times in 3,939 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	__________________ “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 widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

06-30-2016, 10:59 AM	#18936
LOQUI Member How Do You Identify?: Butch, Non Binary, Trans, Always Me. :) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,139 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,335 Thanked 2,486 Times in 848 Posts Rep Power: 19030326	"Sometimes you can get so busy trying to be someone else's anchor that you don't even realize that you are actually drowning."

07-04-2016, 12:05 AM	#18937
LOQUI Member How Do You Identify?: Butch, Non Binary, Trans, Always Me. :) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,139 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,335 Thanked 2,486 Times in 848 Posts Rep Power: 19030326	"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half." -Unknown-

07-06-2016, 10:17 PM	#18938
Bubala Member How Do You Identify?: Lady Sunflower Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: San Fran Posts: 844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 463 Thanked 1,669 Times in 615 Posts Rep Power: 9338275	__________________ When life turns its back on you....grab its ass

07-10-2016, 06:58 AM	#18939
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,459 Times in 2,038 Posts Rep Power: 21474854

07-12-2016, 01:53 AM	#18940
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,116 Times in 1,726 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Eckhart Tolle Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. The only thing you ever have is now. Eckhart Tolle __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence