There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
I came to New York late; I was already past 30
Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that if you are black in America and you're alive, you deserve a round of applause. There are so many forces that don't want us to be alive, and so just being openly who I am, and happy and thriving, is a political act.
It's a funny thing about weaknesses. . . . Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous. '. . . that's what innkeepers are for.
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.