Our Own Stories Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
— Teju Cole
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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own…
— Bill Moyers
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history…
— Erykah Badu
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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
— George R. R. Martin
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If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.
— Mira Nair
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock…
— Arundhati Roy
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In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
— Alberto Manguel
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There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one…
— Charles de Lint
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Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings…
— Cameron Dokey
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For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
— Michael Ondaatje
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What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin…
— Cameron Dokey
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I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame…
— Kiersten White
Who Wrote These Our Own Stories Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Our Own Stories Quotes as follows: