"In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable."

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Bell Hooks

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“Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.”
“Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.”
“I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.”
“I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.”
“There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.”
“The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.”
“Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media
“And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.”

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