"What we cannot imagine cannot come into being."

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Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.53, Routledge

Bell Hooks

#Imagine Quotes

“I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.”
“[James Mattis] also has real passion for the care of the men and women in the U.S. military and their families. So, you know, I think he would be an outstanding candidate.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.”
“All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes. What's different in Obama's case is that he's wearing a racial mask, this 'bargainer's' mask, and I think very effectively, whereby he gives whites the benefit of the doubt. He's essentially saying, 'I am going to presume you are not racist, if you won't hold my race against me.' So, his mask is a distinctly racial one.”

Source : Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.
“Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.”

Source : William Appleman Williams, Henry W. Berger (1992). “A William Appleman Williams reader: selections from his major historical writings”, Ivan R Dee
“George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.”
“What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!”
“Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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