Gartland Quotes & Sayings

Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is knowing the history offered up to black people - its many interpretations and echoes of white superiority and black inferiority, of white heroism and black cowardice, and even the temporal and geographical location of history's beginning as a step off of the African continent - is a falsehood that blacks are forced to treat as truth in so many countless ways. Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction. — Steve Biko

She grimaces. 'Yeah, maybe you were a bad friend but I'm a good friend so I understand and I'll take you back. Let's just begin again. — Autumn Doughton

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world. — John Elder Robison

Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do. — Theresa May

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man. — Johnny Cash

It's never too early to care about fashion. — Karl Lagerfeld

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. — Tom Hooper