Quotes About Rebellion

one day Satan himself visits, along with his great-grandmother—who is, not surprisingly, a total fucking bitch.

College is the best thing that can ever happen to you, my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..

I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.

This grown man who now phones his father to say, Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy so long, I'd throw stones at it.

She said, "I'm going to have you fired." I had two people say that to me today, "I'm going to have you fired." Go ahead, be my guest. I'm wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn't get any worse than this. Who do these people think they are? I'm going to have you fired!" and I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed.

Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you something to fucking kick about

Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out of your mama's tattered old pussy, grabbed hold of her milk stained titties, and you ain't never looked back, motherfucker.

Neither were we allowed to choose what we ate. I have a friend whose seven-year-old will only consider something if it's white. Had I tried that, my parents would have said, You're on, and served me a bowl of paste, followed by joint compound, and, maybe if I was good, some semen.

Good girl, Rachel. Now, let's get the hell out of here. Your mother has a headache that won't quit until you're twenty-one

the lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. "You kids think you invented sex," my mother was fond of saying. But hadn't we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern?

The bow tie is like the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you are so sorely mistaken.

The part of my plan that made old people uncomfortable, that exposed them for the bigots they were—and on a Sunday!—still appealed to me.

When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.")

In my house, our parents put us to bed with two simple words: "Shut up." That was always the last thing we heard before our lights were turned off. Our artwork did not hang on the refrigerator or anywhere near it, because our parents recognized it for what it was: crap. They did not live in a child's house, we lived in theirs.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you

could it be???? Timothy Speaks, who had so many pierced holes in his ears you could have torn the lobe right off, effortlessly ripped it loose the same way you might separate a stamp from a sheet.

He tells me that my life is empty, but it isn't quite because I bought some pot today.

When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.

There were better things to do with life than giving in to the peer pressure of mortality.

They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way out.

Nosotros somos gente normal. Ésa era la absurda definición que mi padre hacía de nosotros. Luché contra ello, con el deseo callado de no ser normal, de ser alguien especial. Pero nunca pude sacudirme de encima ese estigma, el de ser normal.

In August, Douglass righteously claimed that "everyone knows that this is the slaveholders' rebellion and nothing else." The war, he said, was the work of a "privileged class of irresponsible despots, authorized tyrants and blood-suckers, who fasten upon the Negro's flesh, and draw political power and consequence from their legalized crimes.

Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.