"..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes."

-- Bell Hooks

#Challenges Quotes #Way Quotes

“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”
“Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.”

Source : "Sugar Ray" by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson, (p. 75), March 22, 1994.
“If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.”

Source : "Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on Paul". Interview with Jessica Johnson, www.timeout.com. March 16, 2011.
“Youâ€™re crowding me. I needâ€” room.â€... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldnâ€™t be trusted in Patchâ€™s presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet â€¦ I wasnâ€™t.”
“I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.”

Source : "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.
“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

Source : 1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.
“I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.”

Source : "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs

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