Moten Quotes & Sayings

The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it's fucked up for you, in the same way that we've already recognized that it's fucked up for us. I don't need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know? — Fred Moten

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about. — Roxane Gay

You don't think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking. — David Schnarch

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. — Timothy Noah

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing. — Ted Shackelford

Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit. — Michio Kushi

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure... — Fred Moten

He who caused us to be told that we must prove the spirits, would not have done so unless he knew that we had infallible rules to tell the holy from the false spirit. We have such rules, and nobody denies it. But these deceivers produce rules which they can falsify and adapt to their pretensions, in order that, having rules in their hands, they may gain the credit of being masters in their craft by a visible sign under pretext of which they can form a faith and a religion such as they have imagined. — Francis De Sales

Personally, I've never done things just for money. — Glenn Turner

we can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested. — Fred Moten

Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it. — Jasmine Sandozz

As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words. — Zach Condon

If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that. — Ronda Rousey

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. — Edgar Allan Poe

There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well! — Bram Stoker

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. — Eileen Myles

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. — George W. Bush