Forcefully Taken Quotes

#1. We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active

Assata Shakur

#2. Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calisto
lascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.
(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)
[Marius naming Jupiter's moons]

Simon Marius

#3. I think you've got no choice but to suffer more. It was your job to save people's lives. You weren't allowed to make mistakes. But nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes at some point in our lives, no matter how hard we try. But every time we do make a mistake, we have to learn from it.

Minari Endou

#4. The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

Bruce Barcott

#5. When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations.

Debra L. Kaplan

#6. Life is the gift that keeps on giving. Appreciate that blessing for what it is

Les Brown

#7. I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Jeff Bridges

#8. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us.

Jared Bush

#9. Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

Lee Siegel

#10. Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

Fernando Pessoa

#11. Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

Roland Martin

#12. Daddy," Ava says seriously, "it's been two years since Mama died. Uncle Cam says if you don't use it - it will fall off and die. I'm pretty sure he was talking about your heart. Everyone needs someone to love.

Jillian Dodd

#13. I believe you are a man of your word, and a white man, and I'll tell you the whole story.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

Gilbert Arenas

#15. If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Elvin Jones