Zocaloans Quotes & Sayings

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? — Edith Wharton

Being exceptional isn't revolutionary, it's lonely. It separates you from your community. Who are you, really, without community? I have been held up consistently as a token, as the "right" kind of trans woman (educated, able-bodied, attractive, articulate, heteronormative). It promotes the delusion that because I "made it," that level of success is easily accessible to all young trans women. Let's be clear: It is not. — Janet Mock

To know your languages of all languages
is to know your silence.
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

Outward success alienates a man from himself. — James T. Hill

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win. — Lucy Stone

Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them. — Elizabeth Chadwick

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh. — Shaquille O'Neal