Alotta Fagina Quotes

#1. Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

Audre Lorde

#2. All great authors are seers.

George Henry Lewes

#3. Hurry up and live.

Seneca.

#4. It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ...

Charlton Heston

#5. She was the flint and he the steel. But in continual striking together they only destroyed each other.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. You can ask many questions but you cannot question everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

Ann Patchett

#8. Don't let setbacks and disappointments convince you to ever give up and settle for less than you are. Be the great and amazing person, that you were born to be!

Timothy Pina

#9. Do not censor yourself. Let go of that part of your brain and just be.

Red Phoenix

#10. We must achieve neither mere history, nor mere fiction, but myth. A true myth is one which, within the universe of a certain culture (living or dead), expresses richly, and often perhaps tragically, the highest admirations possible within that culture.

Olaf Stapledon