Kenn Bivins > Kenn's Quotes

“Resentment has the potential to consume many who appear to be otherwise blameless. Unresolved caged resentment that one day breaks free and kills all of the delicate innocence in the yard. Acidic, rancorous resentment has gears for teeth that are perfectly oiled by bitterness and possess a judgment unable to discern the corrupted from the good.”
― Kenn Bivins, Pious

“Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets may be as incriminating as a literal decaying skeleton in one’s closet.”
― Kenn Bivins, Pious

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
― A.A. Milne

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I live in a man’s world, but every man is born of us. Every man draws life from our womb. Some of them may regard us as less than starving cattle, but they would be no more than semen on the ground if we were so insignificant.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“We're not strong because we struggle, we struggle because we're strong.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“Neither super strength, nor telepathy, nor flight, nor telekinesis, nor any aberrant ability will ever be as great as the innate ability that a woman has when she is able to control her own mind.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“Blessed is the woman who has never had anything to love. She can never know the heartbreak that comes with losing it.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“Life goes on. Except for my mother.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“While the differences between love and hate can be blurred and difficult to decipher at times, the dichotomy of denial and acceptance are much more distinct. One is halting and aggressively rejects all truth, while the other is more passive and at peace – welcoming whatever truth is in waiting, whether fortunate or tragic.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“A wedding is allegedly one of the most wondrous experiences in a woman’s life. All attending her presence are to make the occasion completely about her. Her beauty in that sliver of time is to be suspended in eternity so that ten years, thirty pounds and two kids later, she may sigh at the princess she once was.”
― Kenn Bivins, The Wedding & Disaster of Felona Mabel

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”
― Charles Schulz

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves