"It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure."

-- Hilary Thayer Hamann

#Mean Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Confusing Quotes

“Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.”
“I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.”
“People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.”
“There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.”
“here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.”

Source : Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.54, South End Press
“Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.”
“Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.”
“Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

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