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Own Quotes by Bell Hooks
- You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,
- I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
- I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring…
- ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be…
- It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of…
- ..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the…
- It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think…
- I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain.…
- Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov