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Quotes About Defiance

The horizontal quality of black life, that is, the smashed flat quality of life for the oppressed, proposes that we is all generally equally mashed.
~ Amiri Baraka
She insulted conservatives and cowards every time she opened her mouth
~ Amy Bloom
I played this game for myself. Its all you've ever wanted me to do, and I did. And playing for me means you. It means you, and me, and the world can take a flying fuck. It means whatever we do for the rest of our lives, we do it forever, and we do it openly, and—
~ Amy Lane
Yeah, here I am, oh mighty ass-reaming sky-daddy! Here I am! Fucking offering my goddamned penance! Prostrating myself before you, and you know the fun thing? The laugh-riot thing? The goddammit all, God's gonna laugh until he pisses on us thing?
~ Amy Lane
He'd been worried. He'd been afraid. And he'd been hurt, and Mikhail almost couldn't stand it. Not Shane. Not his beautiful lover, who gave his heart and everything else to make Mikhail's world wonderful. Dammit, he wanted to shout, leave him the hell alone!
~ Amy Lane
Mackey stretched out on Trav's sheets almost defiantly, one knee drawn up, his cock larger than Trav had expected now that it was hard and extended up over his thigh.
~ Amy Lane
Cause when they're pissed at me, at least they know I'm there," Mackey said. "You spend enough time with a town that wants you to disappear, you realize that you can't do that when someone wants to slug you.
~ Amy Lane
No, cow woman, I was too busy avoiding your great and powerful ass. It was in my way. Now make up for it and go fetch like the peasant you are." "Bitch." "Heifer.
~ Amy Lane
I may be a faggot," he said clearly, "but at least I'm not a moron, an asshole, or a rednecked motherfucker.
~ Amy Lane
He liked being the guy who looked legit but who fucked with the fuckers
~ Amy Lane
you touch him again, and I'll shove my hand up your ass and use your face as a pooper-scooper, do you hear me?
~ Amy Lane
Labels are for cans,' they say. If they do try a name on for size, 'queer' or 'dyke' or 'fag,' they rip it off the next day.
~ Amy Sohn
How easy it all was, to get drunk, to go mad, to vandalise, to commit fraud. Perhaps she had always had criminal tendencies;
~ Amy Witting
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
~ Anatole France
las pobres gentes, adiestradas en la obediencia por sus antiguos tiranos y por sus recientes libertadores, se alejaron de allí cabizbajas, arrastrando los pies.
~ Anatole France
I salute Antonin Artaud for his passionate, heroic negation of everything which causes us to be dead while alive.
~ Andre Breton
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
~ Andre Maurois
Man, strip off thy garments, cover thy head with ashes, run into the streets and dance in thy madness.
~ André Schwarz-Bart
Le despescuezo el pato, me le como los huevos y le incendio el nido.
~ Andrés Caicedo
Si no llevo la contraria no puedo vivir contenta
~ Andrés Caicedo
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is -- it can only be -- the vigor of his protest against it.
~ Andre Breton
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Antifeminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of woman hating.
~ Andrea Dworkin
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it's needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
~ Andrea Dworkin