Marlon Riggs Quotes

#1. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Martin Seligman

#2. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

Marlon Riggs

#3. As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.

Marlon Riggs

#4. Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

Marlon Riggs

#5. The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

Jim Garrison

#6. They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it.

Tim O'Brien

#7. It occurs to me that, for all her flaws, my mother is a Very Nice Person. I go over to her and give her a hug.

"What's that for?" she asks.

"I don't know. Just felt like it.

Claire LaZebnik

#8. You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Frederick Lenz

#9. When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.

Marlon Riggs

#10. A company like Adobe, there are dozens of different teams that are using Slack. Each of those elected to use Slack independently.

Stewart Butterfield

#11. It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.

Marlon Riggs

#12. I'm sorry."

"Not yet, but you will be.

Teresa Mummert

#13. So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Marlon Riggs

#14. Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

Destiny Booze

#15. Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

John Milton

#16. Humility is, of all graces , the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#17. I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Dick Van Patten

#18. Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

Marlon Riggs

#19. My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.

Marlon Riggs