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“You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.”
“You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.”
“You know why I have been given a birth? Just to awake you, just to teach you, just to make you fall for each other, just to ... just to ... just to ...”
“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.”
“You know why I put that "rag" on my head occasionally, even though I hold no compulsion for it?
Because in some parts of the world people are still medieval enough to deem us "ragheads" and "desert dwellers" as subject of fear, hate, mistrust and repugnance. I cannot change how these suited savages feel by retaliating hate with further hate. The only way I can expand anybody's sight is by being the most exuberant raghead that ever lived.
We treat the worst of humanity by being the best of humanity. That is why I am raghead, that is why I am latino, that is why I am black, and that is why I am many more facets of human existence in one body. I am one, yet I am all. Or better yet, I am all, that's why I am one.
Wherever someone is pushed to the wall, I am there. Wherever someone is kneed to the ground, I am there. Wherever someone is denied the freedom of choice and the freedom of love, I am there. Wherever someone is denied the common decency and dignity in life, I am there. For I am but a reflection of life oppressed, for I am but resuscitation of life oppressed, for I am but invigoration of life oppressed.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.”
“You know why I really hated you? With all that you had you were just so oblivious to it all. You didn't use your beauty. You didn't ever try to get what you wanted. You didn't deserve what you had. I did because I would have used it. And you just...loved me. Loved me no matter what I did. You have no idea how I despised you for that. I wanted you gone."
'The Yielding”
Source: A Chimerical World: Tales of the Unseelie Court
“You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?”
“You know why I’ve survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.”
“You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.”
“You know why I want you? I didn't know I was lost until you found me. I didn't know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You're the one thing I've got right. You're what I've been waiting for Pigeon.”
“You know why I write books? Because it is the one thing about the outcome of which I don't give a damn. I don't care if they gather dust, I don't care if they don't sell. In fact, among my hundred plus works, there are a few that have sold barely ten copies. Yet, am I bothered! Nope!
I don't write to sell books, I write because my mind teeters on the edge of psychosis if I spend a single day without writing. Sure, the ultimate mission behind my legacy is the construction of a humane world, but if you get down to the actual morale of the moment - the only recompense I get out of it all, is the felicity of putting my fervor on paper - thus immortalizing them for eons to come. That's how this one life could produce such an impossibly inexhaustible amount of literature in the first place - because I dream my ideas, breathe my ideas, and live my ideas. Better a lesser read genius, than a misread genius. Or to put it plainer still - I am not a writer, I am an anomaly - for better or for worse, I am an anomaly.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.”
“You know why Love Doesn't get Honest To you ?;
Because you're choosing Them Enemy ;
Lie ;”
“You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.
“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.”
Source: God Hates Us All
“You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.”
Source: From the Back of the Bus
“You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have
to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.”
“You know why most menorahs nowadays have nine branches even though Hanukkah lasts eight days! It is to hold the ninth candle that sacrifices itself to light up the lives of those lamenting in darkness.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.”
Source: Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8
“You know why people pair up into couples? Because being a human is fucking terrifying. But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.”
Source: Loveless
“You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.”
“You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.”
“You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.”
“you know why the moon mission stuff mattered so much? we've been sharing a collective broken heart for what feels like forever, but with the moon stuff, we got to share a dream… and it just feels really, really good to dream.”
“You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.”
“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic extermination of living cultures and communities, it really helps if you simultaneously propagate a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil, this way you can criminalize the very thought of revolution, not only legally, but also morally.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your entire empire is built on systemic extermination of living cultures and communities, it really helps if you simultaneously propagate a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil, this way you can criminalize the very thought of revolution, not only legally, but also morally. Nonviolence has never been about human rights, nonviolence is western propaganda, commodified to maintain moral superiority, if the tortured communities ever dare to resist.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.”
“You know why there is so-much power outage in the world? Because the humans are unaware of their own electricity, both metaphorically and literally. And one who realizes their inner electricity and brings it out to electrify the whole world, is the true CEO of the world.
I don't care for being the CEO of some puny anti-humanitarian company, for I am already a CEO - I am the CEO of planet earth - I am the Chief Evolution Officer of the human world - so is every single human whose responsibility towards society outweighs their primeval drive for narcissism and self-preservation.
In every age, in every time, there'll come ten of us Chief Evolution Officers to make mincemeat of the megalomaniacal ploy of anti-humanitarian giants while driving human evolution in a humane direction.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car.”
“You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”
“You know why they hate me, cause they love me.”
“You know why they say that, that models are too skinny? Because parents are horrible, they can't tell their sixteen year old daughter she's not really a princess, well guess what, I can.”
“You know why we have two hands 'n one mouth, so that we may stop arguing ‘n help each other out.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had ten major wars. We average a major war every twenty years. So we're good at it!”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.”
“You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.”
“You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.”
“You know why you have to give [Donald] Trump credit, whether you don't like him or not? He opened the door.Now there's a lot of talk about immigration. That's good. Nobody wanted to talk about it.”
“You know why you have two ears but one mouth, so that you talk less and listen more.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“You know why you see color, it's because you are distant. Get close to the person and all colors would disappear.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“You know with Obama being elected, we had a wonderful opportunity. I hope it's not blown, and we have forms of government that don't seem to be up to the level of the leaders who are around who will want to move this country in a proper direction. Where that goes and how that goes, I mean, we seem determined to not move ahead, to stay in the same place. And there are a lot of nuts out there as well.”
“You know, with the most charitable feelings towards him, there are moments when you can't help thinking that young Bingo ought to be in some sort of a home.”
Source: The Inimitable Jeeves
“You know worries are made to be shared, don't you?”
Source: Of Men Made Gods
“You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.”
“You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady.”
“You know you are achieving success with your treatments when frequent trips to doctors wane into occasional annual visits for routine check ups.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.”
Source: Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Large Print 16pt)
“You know you are blessed when you have countless reasons to be grateful for.”
“You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost.”