"Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible."

-- Bell Hooks

#White Quotes #Diversity Quotes #Choices Quotes

“There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.”
“The fact is, America needs energy and new energy infrastructure, and the Keystone XL pipeline will help us achieve that with good stewardship.”

Source : "A blueprint for environment, energy" by John Hoeven, www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.
“I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.”
“The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.”
“Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.”

Source : Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics
“In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.”
“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”

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