To be locked in the past means, in effect, that one has no past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.
James Baldwin
To be locked in the past means, in effect, that one has no past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.
James Baldwin
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; n the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt
Crying is just the way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how broken your heart is.
Japanese saying
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm X
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anyone is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.
George Orwell
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
Paulo Coelho
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
George Orwell
white America would rather throw away democracy altogether, and embrace "a native form of fascism to preserve their power.
Martin Luther King, Jrdreams and photographs