"I think books can give rise to empowerment."

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Ilyasah Shabazz

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.”
“If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.”
“If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.”

Source : Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books
“The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.”
“Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.27, New York Review of Books
“I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.”
“Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”

Source : Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA
“I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.”

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