Roxane Gay Quotes

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

Roxane Gay

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LoveWomanI AmNot PerfectLoved

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

John Dalberg-Acton

IgnoranceSimpleWillDevelopment

I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history books: my name everywhere as a champion. And then, later on in my career, when I start getting good, then I can start doing the exhibition matches for money and stuff.

Max Holloway

GoodHistoryMoneyChampionStart

Especially in hip-hop, no one takes responsibility for their actions.

Statik Selektah

ResponsibilityHip-HopActionsTakes

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

Trey Parker

FamilyEnoughLuckyKidWhereShow

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Ludwig van Beethoven

MusicWordsMeMoreThanReadily

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

Josh Homme

EnoughYouLuckyEveryoneGet

I don't like to rush my music.

Desiigner

MusicRushLike

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

PeopleSeeingAlwaysCharacters

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

Aretha Franklin

DoorBackGoOutGotCrying

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Anthony Edwards

MyselfSupportActingWoodAlways

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

William T. Vollmann

FatherHeartRespectMeVotingDuty

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

Peter Jackson

SufferingFriendsLostPersonal

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