Akkan Bi Quotes & Sayings

Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew. — Sandra Lee Dennis

Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory. — Anthony Liccione

When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he was not merely being aspirational; at the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant "government of the people" but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term "people" to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people," but the means by which "the people" acquired their names. This — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect. — Joe Abercrombie

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. — Anonymous

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H.L. Mencken

Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction — Eric Jerome Dickey

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece. — Cuba Gooding Jr.