Early American Patriot Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia. — Adam Phillips

She wasn't surprised when his character revealed itself - if you waited long enough, it always did. Like the dawn. — Colson Whitehead

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. — Allen Sapp

False hope is worse than despair. — Jonathan Kozol

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read. — Alberto Caeiro

We always stayed true to what the Ramones are. — Joey Ramone