I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.
From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become ‘The Hate U Give.’
A little anger is a good thing if it isn’t on your own behalf, if it’s for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger’s tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.
There’s definitely an intense anger that I have inside, and I don’t know where it came from. I’ve had it all my life. My mom was always like, ‘You’re going to end up in jail with that temper!’
I felt abandoned at a young age. That’s where most of my anger came from, I guess.
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
It’s still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won’t get me anywhere.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Emotion is a full range of a spectrum, like colours. It’s not just anger. How are you going to get that out with just a guitar and screaming? You need to explore everything else.
Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It’s a great dynamic.
Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.
I have a lot of anger about my childhood – being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.
You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have to set yourself to cultivate those.
Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That’s a lot of work, but to me it’s worthwhile.
And I think there’s something about conservatives frankly – and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.
With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.
If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner’s simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
I was shocked at the anger toward me.
Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.
I’ve never been shown how to get rid of my anger. I think I do it through my music.
