Quotes About Defiance

Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify

All they have to do is to turn around and shoot. All the people have to do is to lie down and die.

That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous.

Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.

When the sun grew hot, they returned indoors where they continued to float through their lives like a pair of astronauts, defying gravity, limited only by the outer walls of their fuchsia spaceship with its pale pistachio doors. It isn't as though they didn't have plans. Anjum waited to die. Saddam waited to kill.

As she grew older, Ammu learned to live with this cold, calculating cruelty. She developed a lofty sense of injustice and the mulish, reckless streak that develops in Someone Small who has been bullied all their lives by Someone Big. She did exactly nothing to avoid quarrels and confrontations. In fact, it could be argued that she sought them out, perhaps even enjoyed them.

She died in her cage, the little bird These words she left for her captor Please take the spring harvest And shove it up your gilded arse

Perhaps Ammu, Estha and she were the worst transgressors. But it wasn't just them. It was the others too. They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

I am about life. I'm gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i'm not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson—that we were never meant to survive.

I seek no favor untouched by blood.

They convinced me meaning they had dragged her 4'10 Black Woman's frame over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval until she let go the first real power she ever had and lined her own womb with cement to make a graveyard for our children.

We were never dressed too lightly, but rather "in next kin to nothing.

the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

J'ai léché les lèvres d'une louve, la colère, et je m'en suis servie pour illuminer, rire, protéger, mettre le feu en des lieux où il n'y avait ni lumière, ni nourriture, ni sÅ"urs, en des lieux sans merci. (...)

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs

HEDLEY: He would not call me King. He laughed to think a black man could be King. I did not want to lose my name, so I told him to call me the name my father gave me, and he laugh. He would not call me King, and I beat him hard with a stick.