They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is… — Andrea Barthwell Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over… — Mark Roberts Copy Share Image
My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the… — James Levine Copy Share Image
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
I feel beautiful when I watch the commercials or see myself on a bus. But it's not only because it is me… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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