Quotes About Defiance

she was an army of one and was stronger than the invading force.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.

I believe in hope as an act of defiance, or rather as the foundation for an ongoing series of acts of defiance, those acts necessary to bring about some of what we hope for while we live by principle in the meantime. There is no alternative, except surrender. And surrender not only abandons the future, it abandons the soul.

There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.

though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn't enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons

we should resist on principle, even though it might be futile.

smoke, drink, never think—borrowed from Billie Holiday.

when we done went and ripped all the gold HIS monograms off the anniversary towels and writ SHITHEAD on them with magic markers.

to let anything connected with Charlene get criticized, so I said, Mama, you're just jealous because you can't dance like Charlene. Mama said, Shut your filthy mouth. Then I said, Shut your filthy mouth.

Mi infancia y mi adolescencia habían transcurrido bajo la dictadura de Batista y el resto de mi vida bajo la aún más férrea dictadura de Fidel Castro; jamás había sido un verdadero ser humano en todo el sentido de la palabra

The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was, as I said, an optimist. He stood in constant defiance.

And now, you bunch of mole-snouted, muck-raking, hutch-hearted sheep ticks, get out of my sight sharp.

aber es gab keine Razzien in den Lasterhöhlen mehr. Jedermann wusste, dass Lasterhöhlen jedem wirklich revolutionären Klima abträglich waren.

We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence

At least Harry Potter knew the who fuck he was dealing with.

They found him late that night. He was floating head-down in the benjo, the long, deep trench of rain-churned shit that served as the communal toilet. Somehow he had dragged himself there from the hospital, where they had carried his broken body when the beating had finally ended. It was presumed that, on squatting, he had lost his balance and toppled in. With no strength to pull himself out, he had drowned.

Heroin possesses no negative qualities. You Asshole.

Yet he opposed the introduction

When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry.

Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

When they ask how I died," I said. "Tell them: Still Angry.

Do I look like a fucking slave to you?" he asked them. And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.

And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.