"Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation."

-- Bell Hooks

#Strong Quotes #Confused Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.”
“I think I've been a great citizen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.”
“Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?”
“It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.”
“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”
“Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree”

Source : "Trees" l. 11 (1913)
“It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.”

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