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Place Quotes by Bell Hooks
- The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to…
- Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of…
- Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the…
- If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place…
- I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
- Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always…
- The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
- I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and…
- To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place…
- I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive…
- Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment…
- Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that…
- I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full…
- 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.…
- In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not…
- The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden