Hamdani Akbar Quotes & Sayings

I don't want you to need me. I want you to want me, badly! — D.C. Akers

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people
either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent. — Saul Bellow

all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan

Sarah: Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever ... — James O'Barr

Neoliberal theorists are, however, profoundly suspicious of democracy. Governance by majority rule is seen as a potential threat to individual rights and constitutional liberties. Democracy is viewed as a luxury, only possible under conditions of relative affluence coupled with a strong middle-class presence to guarantee political stability. Neoliberals therefore tend to favour governance by experts and elites. — David Harvey

Once in my room I don't have a goddamn clue what to do. — Kelly Thompson

The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit. — Louise Penny

You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed to mine, our sweat golden and glistening in the candlelight. 'Oh, my love,' I whispered back to her, 'I am more mortal than all. It seems that a part of me dies every night that I lie with you. — Roman Payne

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. — Henry David Thoreau

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life. — Armistead Maupin

I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format. — Reese Witherspoon

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. — Christopher Hitchens