"None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints â€“ into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of â€œmoneyâ€ in particular and class in general as private matters."

-- Bell Hooks

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes

“When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.”
“Still the hottest angel I know," he murmured. "It's beyond me how you're still on staff.”
“I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.”

Source : "The GQA: Bob Mould". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. June 22, 2011.
“Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.”
“The Russians were all really accommodating, and that made it really special. To be allowed in Catherine's Summer Palace...Lily [James] and I have this scene where we fall in love and we waltz up and down this enormous gold hall with thousands of candles and a live orchestra and 300 Russian extras. To do those scenes in situ really meant it was a once-in-a-lifetime job.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
“We really canâ€™t change the world. We really canâ€™t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!”
“Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.”

Source : Hilari Bell (2008). “Forging the Sword”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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