"In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'"

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“Travel is like a university without walls.”

“In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.”

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“As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.”

“A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.”

“Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.”

“I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.”

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge