There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter. Florynce Kennedy More Quotes by Florynce Kennedy More Quotes From Florynce Kennedy I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. Florynce Kennedy hate death thinking Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Florynce Kennedy real racism mind What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport. Florynce Kennedy airports doe people ... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better. Florynce Kennedy ambition brain teacher Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again. Florynce Kennedy coffee peace dirty Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster. Florynce Kennedy oysters pearls thinking The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea. Florynce Kennedy dollars disease country There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist. Florynce Kennedy social-change catching differences At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else. Florynce Kennedy age want time Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it? Florynce Kennedy noble mother doe Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized. Florynce Kennedy minorities black people I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me. Florynce Kennedy self-respect self-esteem people Don't agonise, organise. Florynce Kennedy teacher Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism. Florynce Kennedy racist racism people Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages. Florynce Kennedy fifty men thinking Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon. Florynce Kennedy daddy depression moving I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice. Florynce Kennedy gun mistake thinking Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn. Florynce Kennedy arms helping trying
