If everybody knew everybody, we wouldn't have the problems we have in the world today. Well, you don't rob somebody if you know their name!
— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
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She thinks I'm a nice guy. Women always think I'm nice, but women don't like nice….Why is nice bad? What kind of sick society we are living in, when nice is bad?
You know, we're living in a society! We're supposed to act in a civilized way.
— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.
Society is always looking for ‘tangible’ ways to tell you what your gender is.
Homeless people are human beings with immense value. They are members of our families, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and, for a number of people reading this, they are themselves (or have been). The fact that homeless people do not have housing is a wrong done against them, not a sign they did…
I am so thankful to be in this moment with all of you. It is the time we stand shoulder to shoulder, with every human being. We are building a society filled with love, support, compassion, and healing. I hear you. I trust you. I believe you. I love you.
They say I did something bad Then why's it feel so good?
The disdain we have for the poor is one of the most heartbreaking aspects of our society.
Society will always punish the people who say the things that society wants to suppress. Going to jail is not something I relish, but I feel I can do the time, and I refuse to be so intimidated by prison that it will change my course of action.
If you refuse a service to certain a group of people because of their identity, that's discrimination. Remember that religion was also one justification for refusing to serve African Americans, refusing to hire women.
There was a time when people valued honor and loyalty—when serving a ruler wasn't about obedience and fear.
Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we’ve faced them.
It all goes back and back, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.
Why is it always the innocents who suffer most?
We’re in the midst of a reckoning. It’s what toxic masculinity’s own medicine tastes like. And people should allow the consequences to unfold, regardless of how it affects those they consider to be friends. The only way to enforce seismic, cultural change in the way men relate to women is to draw a…
Growing up, people called me: Bossy. Conceited. Arrogant. But the truth is - boys would act the same way I did, but they'd call him: Ambitious. Visionary. A Leader. You know what? At first it affected me, but then I decided that I wasn't going to change myself to please other people. I kept doing my…
When trauma becomes a part of your identity, it can be terrifying to consider who you are outside of that. The idea of living a life without dysfunction may even seem impossible. Often, you will engage in self sabotaging behavior simply because the pain is familiar.
Many Black people have a hard time releasing trauma because society conditions us to believe that our Blackness is validated by how much suffering we've endured. We then project this belief onto one another.
Ugh. Fatness also complicates this because guys love to make you think they are your last hope. And this culture makes you think you have to be grateful for shitty treatment from fuckboys because that’s all you deserve.