Collected Quotes: September 2019

In this post, you’ll find quotes and .gifs collected over the course of September 2019.

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In this post, you’ll find quotes and .gifs collected over the course of September 2019.

I think a lot of times people assume that activism has to be this big, epic sort of thing, where you’re pit marching, and that’s part of it, and I think a lot of people are ready for that and down for that. But I think that we have to start where we are in the communities where we live, in the schools that our kids attend, [and] in our workplaces. Having good productive conversations about things that are really important to people of color and ought to be important to white folks. So, there’s little things like that, starting where we are.
— Tim Wise

We are more hurt by our own expectation of other people than by their actions.
— Anna Akana
Everyone wants to call God onto their side but we should spend less time praying to get God on my side and more time figuring out if I can get on God’s side.
— Pete Buttigieg (Quoting Abraham Lincoln) – The Breakfast Club

Identity is our most powerful asset, but it is also one of the things that’s probably most misunderstood and it’s often compromised. Because, you know the first mirror that you look into is usually your parents’ eyes, or a guardian, someone who has had an influence over you.
Their hopes, their fears, their aspirations for you is projected onto you at a very young age whether you realize it or not. Their missteps, their own failures at times, they will cast that onto because in their mind, they’re making up for things that they did not achieve. And so we become the vessel for delivering their hopes and dreams to the world.
And so, what happens over time, is the more that happens, the more we begin to question our own voice and our voice — we either become silent or we become awakened and a lot just stay silent forever. There’s a lot of us out there in the world right now walking around, going to jobs we don’t like, that we do not feel fulfilled, we’re creating anxiety […] a world of anxiety where you are not allowed to be the full spectrum of who you are.
— Sunny Bonnell (The Breakfast Club)

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The best part of knowing the rules is finding acceptable ways of breaking them.
— Miss Rose

I think we gotta make some room for people to say stupid stuff sometimes because, at the end of the day, what we can’t deny as Black people is that white privilege has been going on for so long that there is an unconsciousness. And not every slip of the mouth, not every action is racist. It’s just not knowing.
— Red Table Talk | Jada Pinkett-Smith

No one is born broken. Someone breaks us.
— Malcolm

The problem isn’t how you said no, the problem is how you said yes.
— Dr. Andrews

Satan can take a gift that God has given you and use it to hold you in bondage.
— Charity

You thought you had a movement when all you had was a moment.
— Whitley

You keep running too fast, too far, too long, you end up right back where you started. You become the thing you’re running from.
— Lionel

We can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Lionel

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A comeback is not an answer.
— Lionel

Stop forcing people to take sides, or you’ll end up alone.
— Ander

The only way you can truly learn is through experience.
— Lilith

Without a vision, people will perish.
— James

Watch what a man does not what he says, and you’ll see who he is.
— Phil

In God’s time, there are no transitions. It’s just the steady march to holiness or hell, and every day is a step up or a step-down.
— Mae

Be accountable, but still good to yourself.
— Ralph Angel

There’s nothing wrong with my hearing. It just takes me a minute to register what you’re asking and if I should be answering you.
— Karen

The older I get, the less I feel the need to explain myself.
— Karen

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You should never put yourself in a position to apologize.
— Karen

I think every person who is really, really successful has a certain amount of fear, which keeps them going.
— Nicole David

I’m not your science experiment. You can’t leave me in a drawer my whole life and then take me out whenever you want and have all the feels.
— AJ

Land is the closest thing to faith.
— James

You left that boy in the dust and hopefully he was asthmatic.
— Nicki

You gotta choose or you drown.
— Sky

Some days, it feels like staying alive is more important than staying clean.
— Gloria

You become an artist the minute you start showing your stuff to the world.
— Jake

It takes more than love to make a marriage work.
— Mara

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It’s easy to show up and make promises, it’s harder to keep them.
— AJ

I will not tell your secret, but I will not lie for you.
— Sophia

You gotta go head-first into deep things and get in trouble and say stupid things to learn how to say smart things. — Chelsea Handler

“I didn’t know anger is your cover for being in deep pain.” — Chelsea Handler

“It’s not about your intention, it’s about the reception.” — Chelsea Handler

Nightmares aren’t so scary without the protection of the dark. — Anne

Ain’t no need to be a lion to a lamb. — Sky

You can’t save everyone. Sometimes you got to give people they problems right back to them. — Mx. Elijah

“It’s an era, and you’ll have it…. everybody has it.  Go for it because this is a time in your life when you really need to scream and yell and cry and all of those things.  It’s a release, and it feels so good”
— Susan Bower | I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story

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Only by admitting who you are you get what you want.
— Kevin Love (The Shop: Uninterrupted 03)

Stability is like a shutoff valve for the brain.
— Sunny Bonnell (The Breakfast Club)

I’m not asking you to be happy for me, I am asking you to be happy with me.

— Pops – Blackish: S6E1 “Pops The Question”

You gotta go head-first into deep things and get in trouble and say stupid things to learn how to say smart things.
— Chelsea Handler

“It’s not about your intention, it’s about the reception.”
— Chelsea Handler

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