#tru

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#because #get #i #outsider #people

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#civilized #decent #free #friend #good

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#comedy #ended #existence #exorcist #me

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#anything #because #go #hate #i

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#aretha #aretha franklin #child #depressed #franklin

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#i #i can #listen #me #most

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#intelligence

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#somebody #troubled #trust

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ↗

— Paul Valery

#best #best way #come #make #our dreams

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#be true #even #false #hazard #i