"To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings."

-- Bell Hooks

#Pain Quotes #Boys Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.”
“All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it”

Source : Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”
“Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.”
“For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.”
“You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today." The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls." The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay." And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that." Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.”
“As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.”
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.”
“God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.”

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