Joycelyn Elders Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives. — Azar Nafisi

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are. — Caitlyn Jenner

Out beyond
the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make any sense. — Rumi

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade. — Austin Butler

I'm not chasing after some chick I want to fuck. I'm chasing after a woman I love who isn't letting me in. — Nashoda Rose