Detour Quote by Kevin Gates

Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced…

— Maya Wiley

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a…

— Wentworth Miller

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any…

— Robin S. Sharma

I was living in a place where I was harming myself. I was irresponsible. I'd lost several apartments. I couldn't hold a job. I…

— Bernie Mac

I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped…

— George Saunders

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely…

— Luke Ford

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others…

— Brooke Ellison

I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted…

— Zhou Qunfei

Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were…

— Sukarno

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me.…

— Om Puri