Swept Under The Rug Quotes

#1. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

Russell Simmons

#2. For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

Potter Stewart

#3. It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Jeff Ross

#4. Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

Trai Byers

#5. I'm trying to show you how much I care, that your dreams mean something to me! They're not things to be swept under the rug or given lip service. They fucking matter, Libby. You matter.

Kristen Callihan

#6. It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

Nate Parker

#7. Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

James P. Hoffa

#8. Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.

Stacy Barthe

#9. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

Paul Gibbons

#10. I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.

Dash Mihok

#11. In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

Andrew Sullivan

#12. I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

Haile Gerima

#13. The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Cal Thomas

#14. I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

J. P. Morgan

#15. Nobody would be riding a racist Wilhelmina golden coach today in The Hague if the Dutch hadn't swept unpleasant aspects of their history under the rug.

Dauglas Dauglas

#16. Do something new, do something correct, do something quick. And don't worry about doing all three simultaneously.

Myself

#17. My fatal flaw is hubris.
The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?
No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse.
What could be worse than hummus?

Rick Riordan

#18. We should stop worrying so much about the price of gasoline and start considering its cost. You really want to be patriotic? Don't change your car by putting a flag on it, change the car.

Bill Maher

#19. What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

Alanis Morissette

#20. People always want to know things . . . until they hear them, and then it's too late. Knowledge is a rug of a certain size, and the world is larger. It's not what remains uncovered at the edges that should worry you, rather what is swept beneath.

Mark Lawrence

#21. I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

Neil Morrissey

#22. I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#23. The things I could have done had Hollywood been more open? I don't dwell on coulda-woulda-shoulda. Because, hey, I've had a great career.

Pepe Serna

#24. I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#25. For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals.

Aysha Taryam

#26. It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

Calvin Coolidge

#27. It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

Alice Cooper

#28. Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.

Eileen Wilks

#29. When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

John H. Johnson