Lealon Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one. — Dennis Prager

Family is very important; it reminds you what your pasts were and not what you've become. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whether or not the abuser's hand has actually pressed against our labia--or slammed into our face--our identity as women is constituted by the threat of violence. From childhood we are made to understand that other people will try to control our bodies, and that many will succeed. Unlike boys, we are never taught to fight back when our physical self-sovereignty is threatened. That is why our identity is an identity of incoherence, and why it's so hard to give it up to the other's mouth or her hand or just the universe watching as you lose control by yourself. Losing control of our sexual feelings can be so devastating that we fear we'll lose something even more central to us: our moral integrity. — Donna Minkowitz

I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try. — Ray Lewis