1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
1802
1803
1804
1805
1806
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c784faa | enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to provide and protect for black women, to be benevolen patriarchs. Benevolent patriarchs exercise their power without using force. And it was this notion of patriarchy that educated black men coming from slavery into freedom sought to mimic. However, a large majority of black men took as their stand.. | patriarchy | bell hooks | |
| cc55746 | Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem." | Bell Hooks | ||
| 7fcc0de | While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust." | Bell Hooks | ||
| 99b0cab | Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 1308606 | The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. | fun growth love morals | Bell Hooks | |
| f771147 | As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. | bell hooks | ||
| 9e9de3f | Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women understand capitalism-how it works as a system that exploits female labor and its interconnections with sexist oppression. It has not urged women to learn about different political systems like socialism or encouraged women to invent and envision new political systems. It has not attacked m.. | bell hooks | ||
| ecc26f6 | When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up. | Cornel West | ||
| 8a8339d | See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster. | monsters-of-men | Richard Kadrey | |
| 5508212 | You know, sweetheart, I know I'm fucked up. But if you think the guy trying to protect you instead of walk all over you is the one trying to run your life, you're just as fucked up as I am. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 4eabe14 | Lies; they always come back to haunt you. | Lisa Renee Jones | ||
| 58fb6f5 | Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5100d7b | You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| f73f9d5 | It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day--the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working up to death, which at last turns out to be "sanity." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 371fb04 | Mason glowers, shaking his head. "I've ascended, descended, even condescended, and the List's not ended,-- but haven't yet trans-cended a blessed thing, thankee." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 2f0d142 | Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God." | cyberpunk ghost-in-the-shell hideo-kojima japan mgs sci-fi video-games | Thomas Pynchon | |
| e6486da | Our product is still totally DeepArcher?" "Which is..." "Like 'departure', only you pronounce it DeepArcher?" "Zen thing," Maxine guesses. "Weed thing." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| d1fd09d | What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned? | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 910ac23 | Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 1d5a4fa | Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, 'tis because of the Scale of the Crime.--What we of the Mobility love to watch, is any of the Great Motrices, Greed, Lust, Revenge, taken out of all measure, brought quite past the scale of the ev'ryday world, approaching what we always knew were the true Dimensions of Desi.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 053acb4 | Is it just this miserable fucking city, too many faces, making us crazy? Are we seeing some wholesale return of the dead?" "You'd prefer retail?" | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| a9a9921 | Just be advised, boys,' she said, 'you'll want to watch your step, 'cause what I am is, is like a small-diameter pearl of the Orient rolling around on the floor of late capitalism-- lowlifes of all income levels may step on me now and then but if they do it'll be them who slip and fall and on a good day break their ass, while the ol' pearl herself just goes a-rollin' on. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 6afff14 | the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 82b608a | He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers e.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ed9c6e6 | My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 351e655 | Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society." | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 11f6174 | What's a colony without its dusky natives? Where's the fun if they're all going to die off? Just a big chunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining--wait, wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make believe it's nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Markets... Oh, no. Colonies are much, much more. Coloni.. | colonialism | Thomas Pynchon | |
| cf20ad1 | Just to say evil Islamics did it, that's so lame, and we know it. We see those official close-ups on the screen. The shifty liar's look, the twelve-stepper's gleam in the eye. One look at these faces and we know they're guilty of the worst crimes we can imagine. But who's in any hurry to imagine? To make the awful connection? Any more than Germans were back in 1933, when Nazis torched Reichstag within a month of Hitler becoming chancellor. .. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 5b6508d | Do you remember that piece of footage on the local news, just as the first tower comes down, woman runs in off the street into a store, just gets the door closed behind her, and here comes this terrible black billowing, ash, debris, sweeping through the streets, gale force past the window. . .that was the moment, Maxi. Not when 'everything changed.' When everything was revealed. No grand Zen illumination, but a rush of blackness and death. .. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| f2c9c45 | I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 1656ca4 | Sometimes he'll chuckle at something, but rarely. Whenever somebody asks how come everybody's laughing at something and he isn't, Horst explains his belief that laughter is sacred, a momentary noodge from some power out in the universe, only cheapened and trivialized by laugh tracks. He has a low tolerance for unmotivated and mirthless laughter in general. "For many people, especially in New York, laughing is a way of being loud without hav.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| ba03b96 | the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He might have known, if he'd used any common sense. It didn't come as a revelation, only something he'd as soon not've admitted. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 04d01f6 | In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure... | artist creation creator faith grace grace-and-favor hope memories memory pain | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 46262ba | Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| b049b34 | The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. | intellect science | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 6d1ea31 | I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?" I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other." | true-love walking-on-water | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 1889091 | Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| aedd37a | If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 49906a2 | the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8dd4660 | So my hope, each day as I grow older, is that this will never be simply chronological aging . . . but that I will also grow into maturity, where the experience which can be acquired only through chronology will teach me how to be more aware, open, unafraid to be vulnerable, involved, committed, to accept disagreement without feeling threatened (repeat and underline this one), to understand that I cannot take myself seriously until I stop ta.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3370a35 | Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| fd699c8 | It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily. | wow | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 3c67c49 | Never before in his life had he known what happiness was. He knew at most some very rare states of numbed contentment. But now he was quivering with happiness and could not sleep for pure bliss. It was as if he had been born a second time; no, not a second time, the first time, for until now he had merely existed like an animal with a most nebulous self-awareness. but after today, he felt as if he finally knew who he really was: nothing les.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| cbd8a28 | He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man. | Patrick Süskind |