Anshu Jamsenpa Quotes & Sayings

Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. — Audre Lorde

We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot know what it might make of us. It advances stealthily, day by day and hour by hour and step by poisoned step, never drawing attention to its surreptitious labours, so respectful and considerate that it never once gives us a sudden prod or a nasty fright. Every morning, it turns up with its soothing, invariable face and tells us exactly the opposite of what is actually happening: that everything is fine and nothing has changed, that everything is just as it was yesterday
the balance of power
that nothing has been gained and nothing lost, that our face is the same, as is our hair and our shape, that the person who hated us continues to hate us and the person who loved us continues to love us. — Javier Marias

Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be. — Ralph Marston

Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight. — Janet Lembke

When you realize how great you're then you start to understand how many options you got. — Bianca Frazier

There was a feeling I wanted to feel that I did not feel. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy. — Fran Seen

I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song. — Maggie Nelson

If sex is a journey, orgasm is the both the purpose and journey's end. — Chloe Thurlow

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt. — Hugh Hendry

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know. — Socrates