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“For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.”
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“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”
Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge
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“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.”
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“If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.”
Source : "Death of a Red Heroine". Book by Qiu Xiaolong, 2000.
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“I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.”
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“[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'”
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“You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.”
Source : Michael Dibdin (2008). “Medusa”, p.187, Faber & Faber
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“As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.”
