Brittney Griner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.”
-- Brittney Griner

Source : "Owning The Middle". Interview with Kate Fagan, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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“I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every time I say it, I feel so much better.”
-- Brittney Griner

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“It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story.”
-- Brittney Griner

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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“I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms.”
-- Brittney Griner

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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“Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.”
-- Brittney Griner

Source : "How Slam-Dunking, Gender-Bending WNBA Rookie Brittney Griner Is Changing the World of Sports" by Laurie Abraham, www.elle.com. November 4, 2013.

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“I've always been open about who I am and my sexuality. So, it wasn't hard at all. If I can show that I'm out and I'm fine and everything's OK, then hopefully the younger generation will definitely feel the same way.”
-- Brittney Griner

Source : FaceBook post by Brittney Griner from Apr 18, 2013

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“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”

“With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”

Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

“The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.”

“I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.”

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”

“Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.”

“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.”

“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”

Source : "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.