I’ve been as good as dead since the day I was born. I accepted that a very long time ago.
In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, heartless competitors for the scarce male, the all-important prize that could legitimize our existenc...
I haven't done anything--yet.
I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) in his said that the following five attributes marked Rome at its end: first, a mounting love of show and luxury (that is, affluence); second, a widening gap between the ver...
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Celaena threw her weight into the dagger she held aloft, and gained an inch. His arms strained. She was going to kill him. She truly going to kill him.He made himself look into her eyes, look at the f...
Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiri...
According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatoryThis generation might seem arroga...
A junkie spends half his life waiting.
My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.
To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.
Information and complexity go hand in hand.
Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.
Charlene says:I heard I'm being moved to Jumping for Joy farm. That sounds like a happy place to be. I'll learn a lot about jumping. Maybe it's different than jumping up and down like I do when I'm ha...
Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.