Frantz Fanon Quotes
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.
Quotes to Explore
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.
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People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
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But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.
