"Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis." — Bell Hooks
"Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis."
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
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More Paralysis Quotes
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you…
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I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've…
— Hillary Clinton
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
— Thomas A. Edison
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in…
— William James
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You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and…
— Susan Jeffers
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some,…
— Susan Jeffers
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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow…
— Winston Churchill
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Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions,…
— Narendra Modi
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Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.
— Erich Fromm
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