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
— Anna Akana
— Pete Buttigieg (Quoting Abraham Lincoln) – The Breakfast Club
— Sunny Bonnell (The Breakfast Club)
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— 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)
— 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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