Latest Quotes

“You can’t love someone into loving you.”

— reminisceandremember, via Tumblr

“I, right now, am in no place to forgive anyone without causing harm to myself.”

— Alexis Smithers, Poetry As Church

“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”

— Madeline L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Lightt

“With you or without you I have so much living left to do.”

— 10000 miles away, via Tumblr

“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”

— passionatelypsycho, via Tumblr

“I wish Not to wish anymore. For what is fleeting with its worth Is not worthy any more Than what I could be appreciating Now and working for. What is here now, in front of me Not what I cannot see. As for you, I will let it be.”

— L.Y.S.S., via Tumblr

“We are reminded once again of how the justice system can be used as a white man’s plaything.”

— Ranjeni Munusamy, Oscar Pistorius sentence: an homage to celebrity and white privilege

“I do worry sometimes about whether I'm going to burn out. Not burn myself out, but burn my art out.”

— Idris Elba, Interview Magazine, August 2016

“I do not have any formal education. What use is education when we do not become human beings? My school is the welfare of humanity.”

— Abdul Sattar Edhi, 10 Abdul Sattar Edhi quotes that will leave you inspired for life - The Express Tribune

“To many, VR is the ‘uber OS’ – the screen to replace all screens. But really, its capabilities are far more significant. If you own the VR layer the way Facebook owns mobile web, you control and administrate everything: identity, connection, payments, data, entertainment, information, interaction. I…”

— Matthew Ball, NO ONE'S BETTER AT INVESTING IN ATTENTION THAN FACEBOOK

“So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was still saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’.”

— Abdul Sattar Edhi, via Facebook

“Police abuse in black and brown communities is generations old. It is nothing new. It has become more visible to mainstream America largely because of the proliferation of personal recording devices, cellphone cameras, video recorders — they're everywhere. We need police officers. We also need them…”

— Redditt Hudson, I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing

“Racism is woven into the fabric of our nation. At no time in our history has there been a national consensus that everyone should be equally valued in all areas of life.”

— Redditt Hudson, I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing

“No matter what an officer has done to a black person, that officer can always cover himself in the running narrative of heroism, risk, and sacrifice that is available to a uniformed police officer by virtue of simply reporting for duty.”

— Redditt Hudson, I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing

“On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.”

— Redditt Hudson, I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing

“Why do we assume that pain yields wisdom or moral clarity?”

— Edna Friedberg, Elie Wiesel and the Agony of Bearing Witness

“American society celebrates people who publicly share their personal pain and channel it into something positive... Why should any of us expect people who have suffered profound trauma to relive it for our benefit or for the betterment of humanity?”

— Edna Friedberg, Elie Wiesel and the Agony of Bearing Witness

“All children are miracles, but my sister and I and other children of survivors were not supposed to have ever existed. We had a special obligation (like it or not, and many do not) to make good use of our lives and to be proud Jews and grateful Americans.”

— Edna Friedberg, Elie Wiesel and the Agony of Bearing Witness

“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”

— Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Speech

“When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why.”

— Robert McCammon, Boy's Life