"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."

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Source : bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge

Bell Hooks

#Reality Quotes #Roots Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.”
“She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.”
“Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.”
“If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.”
“Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'”
“My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.”
“A man who limits his interests limits his life.”

Source : Price, Vincent, Price, Mary (2015). “A Treasury of Great Recipes, 50th Anniversary Edition: Famous Specialties of the World's Foremost Restaurants Adapted for the American Kitchen”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications
“If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.”

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