“If you can separate the KKK and Westboro from Christianity then you should be able to separate ISIS from Islam.”Tagged: KKK, Islamophobia, racism, Religion, Prejudice
“American media and politicians love pinning the blame on the whole muslim population so that they do not have to feel like part of the problem and because this, once again, is apparently a matter of religion so that they don't have to reexamine their own views on gun control or homophobia.”Tagged: LGBTQ, Homophobia, Gun Control, America
“We call ships ‘she’. We call our machines 'women’. We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not 'lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name…”Tagged: feminism, Womanhood, Power, strength
“You will still be art even when he stops admiring.”Tagged: Art, Inspirational, Self love, strength, Perspective
“Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling…”Tagged: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Motherhood, Parenthood, Growing Pains
“I really am not interested in whether men are made uncomfortable by feminism because I am made uncomfortable by men every day of my life.”Tagged: feminism, Gender Wars, Equality, Girl Power, Sexual Harassment
“Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.”Tagged: Inspirational, Perspective, Self love, strength, Finding Yourself
“I am a broken bell jar. I am Plath preheating the oven. I am all the things I once feared. Mostly, I am nothing.”Tagged: Suicide, Depression, Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Identity
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”Tagged: Motherhood, Relationships, Family, Friendship, Life
“Funny how you repeatedly hear people using their right to free speech to defend their right to hate speech.”Tagged: Freedom of Speech, Hate, racism, Sexism, Homophobia
“Physical chemistry is not physical at all. Anybody can be attracted to another person, but when bodies move like they've known one another forever and eyes lock like you weren't strangers just a little while ago and lips meet like they were built for one another, it is a manifestation of something…”Tagged: Love, Philosophy
“2016 is like a montage of news footage you see in the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie explaining how the world was ruined.”Tagged: 2016, Apocalypse
“Influencers are going to start disappearing. Brands are going to start realizing the amount of followers you have doesn’t mean shit. Just because photos look good and have 200,000 followers means nothing. You can’t rely on content creators all day long.”Tagged: Social Change, Influencers, Social Likes
“Facebook denies censoring Twitter in Trending topic headlines, or what we call 'descriptions', and the guidelines appear to support this. However, I was specifically trained to avoid using Twitter. Several times curators were penalized for using Twitter in descriptions.”Tagged: Facebook, Trending Topics, Diversity, Censorship, Tech
“Instead of adjusting his policies to the reality, and adjusting his perception of reality to the changing realities on the ground, the conclusions Obama draws are exactly the same, no matter what the costs have been to our strategic interests. In an odd way, Obama reminds me of Bush.”Tagged: Barack Obama, International Relations
“I’m smart enough to get around anything. So there’s never been anything to stop me but myself.”Tagged: Intelligence, Inspirational, perseverance, Humans of New York
“He’s a beautiful person. He always tells me: ‘We’ve got to find a way to win by losing.’ In the eyes of society, we’ve lost already. Everyone in here is a loser. We can either be angry about it, or we can keep trying to grow.”Tagged: Crime, Perspective, perseverance, Moving Forward, Life
“Notice all the people who make an effort to stay in your life.”Tagged: Effort, Love, Dating, Friendship, Relationship
“At your best you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.”Tagged: Unrequited Love, Self Worth