"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."

-- Bell Hooks

#Happiness Quotes #Success Quotes #Perseverance Quotes

“We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.”
“It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.”
“I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.”
“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
“The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.Â Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it.Â Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.”
“If Iâ€™d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, Iâ€™d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.”
“No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.”
“But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.”

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