Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Curiosity is the beginning and end of secrets.”
― Mario Bencastro, The Tree of Life: Stories of Civil War

“I learned that the only thing more unifying to a group of Miamians than a hurricane is the fear that a homeless clinic might move into their neighborhood.”
― Pedro Jose Greer Jr., Waking Up in America

“Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.”
― Walter Mosley, Futureland

“Enslaved" is what the plunderer does to a righteous woman but "a slave" is a righteous woman who has accepted the plunderer's law.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther (2016-2018) #6

“The resignation of its inhabitants encouraged me to relax. They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was coming to them, although a great deal more was due. Their decision to be satisfied with life's inequities was a lesson for me.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“In these circumstances people in poor families who can't pay their way are surrounded by an atmosphere of barely disguised acrimony; they stop being father, mother, sister or brother and become a purely negative factor in the struggle for life and, by extension, a source of bitterness for the healthy members of the community who resent their illness as if it were a personal insult to those who have to support them.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“Revolution required illusion. The two went hand in glove, like a plate of rice and beans.”
― Cristina García

“Without the U.S. embargo, the Revolution couldn't have survived. It'd needed a common enemy to blame for its economic ills. In the end consumerism, not guns would destroy Socialism. Microwaves and computers, motorcycles, iPhones, Omaha Steaks.”
― Cristina García, King of Cuba

“Heart, in Lagos idiom, meant guts, mettle, even recklessness, but rarely compassion. Compassion was a fatal fracturing in hearts bunkered against the city's hardness.”
― A. Igoni Barrett

“Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”
― Pema Chodron

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Gil says he wrote the song in the first person, rather than the third, to avoid making it sound accusatory. "If you do things in the first person, then even people with those kinds of problems can look at them because you're not talking about them. You're talking about yourself. They can look at themselves by looking at you.”
― Marcus Baram, Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner

“I don't know if our power to forget makes humans stronger, more self-destructive, or maybe both.”
― Charlie Jane Anders