Chinelo Okparanta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

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