June Diane Raphael Quotes

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

I laugh, cry, go for movies, eat popcorn. All these things are pretty relaxing for me.

When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there's something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through music, or a lot of people's go-to entertainment to find some answers or understand something.

I cry if something bad happens. I grab a drink with friends when I get stressed out. I travel. I sometimes lash out at my closest friends.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have.

Now people are really inspired to do a lot, and the fire got lit under our asses to be more politically aware and be more politically involved in our community and pay more attention to what's going on.

I'd like to curl up in a ball like Hillary [Clinton]said she would but she is out. And I think we all have to go do that. The fact of the matter is we don't have the luxury of pulling back from this.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity.