"History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings."

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Source : Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.79, Univ of California Press

Grace Lee Boggs

#Cutting Quotes #Past Quotes #Self Quotes

“Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.”
“I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.”

Source : "Know Now: Neon Hitch". Interview with Catherine Straut, www.elle.com. April 16, 2012.
“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.”
“Treasure, that is what you are”

Source : Song: Treasure, Album: Unorthodox Jukebox, 2012
“Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.”
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together.”
“If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.”
“Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.”

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