- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Blatant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a predominantly white community - Hinsdale, Illinois - and given that, I feel blessed because I could still count my experiences with blatant racism on two hands. I thought racism was the substitute teacher picking on you because she assumes that you're a delinquent, and she doesn't know you have the highest score in the class.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
- Hard Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every first draft sucks, so when you have your favorite novel, and you're like, 'Wow, this is a masterpiece,' and then you write your first draft, and you're like, 'This is really bad,' and then you're like 'I can't do this because this is nowhere close.' When, in reality, the book you loved so much started out just as crappy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's demanded from us black creatives is both a blessing and a curse, because it pushes you to be your absolute best. You cannot be anything less.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.
- Rejection
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.
- Dictator
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020