Quotes About Woke

He left her and looked round for his glass again. Meanwhile, he said to himself in a quoting voice: "We are minor in everything but our passions." "Wherever did you read that?" "Nowhere: I woke up and heard myself saying it, one night." "How pompous you were in the night. I'm so glad I was asleep.

Because buried in authoritarianism is always one deep flaw: its insecurity. If authoritarians had broad and deep support, they wouldn't require compulsion. The dirty secret of our woke authoritarians is that they are the minority. You are the majority.

This idea of purity and you're never compromised, you're always politically woke and all that stuff. You should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities.

I went to sleep a poet and I woke up a fraud. To calm your nerves I'm feeling for my clothes in the dark.

And as we awaken, our collective experience awakens. As the Buddha reportedly said, "When I woke up, the world woke up.

In recent years, the term "woke" has been widely used to describe those who've attained doctrinal purity in regard to the social justice movement. While that movement is secular, it seems to fulfill many of the psycho-spiritual appetites once served by religion.

Lisa woke with sore, knotted muscles and a kink in her neck from sleeping without a pillow—sensations so tangible they shouted, Welcome to reality.

And here's one reminder: avoid filling your life with nice people who find racism invisible or who second-guess your every instinct on it while indulging in liberal hand-wringing, because eventually, this will drain your inner resources. Seek out people who are woke - tel me if I just used a hip word correctly?

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

America 2020 is a bad dream — with woke citizens and an asleep government

She had no time for woke Westerners who wanted to decolonize everything.

I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty.

And I woke up and as I woke up the dream began to dissolve. The dream and the story of the dream. And I knew that in the dream was an understanding that was simply a gift and it was receding in the darkness and I sat up in bed and called out after it but it simply fell to pieces in my mind

I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke—an ideal travel companion." —Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN)

joined all the "woke" white men who set their privilege outside themselves—as in, I know better than to be ignorant or defensive about my status in our world. Never mind that that capacity to set himself outside the pattern of white male dominance is the privilege. There's no outrunning the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

Don't worry about the thing on the stairs. If you don't want to be "woke," it's terribly cozy to sleep on peacefully while vast tracts of American horror culture allow you to float in Amity's warm and woozy dream.

Cancel culture', as it's become known, is one of the very worst things about modern society, and it's driven by the same woke liberals who profess to stand for tolerance.

and the desire to spare him that grief rose in her like dark well water until she woke, drowning—

They'd be all right if it was midsummer," said Rose, when we tried them on. "But in April —— !" Still, we decided to wear them if the fine weather held. And when we woke up yesterday it was more like June than April. Oh, it was the most glorious morning! I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. It certainly helps one to believe in Him.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

At its worst, the woke cult of transgenders is a cross between voyeurism and morbidity, a fascination with the sexually bizarre, a politically correct version of snuff pornography. It's at the "intersectionality" of the lassitudinous culture of the Hamptons and the depraved sexual ennui of Hollywood.