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“The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”

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American novelist and philosopher, known for her novels and philosophical ideas. Her works emphasize individualism, free markets, and rationalism, and have had a profound impact on politics and philosophy in the late 20th century. more

“True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.”

Children Dream Sides Brain Fantasy Air Wind South Vain Substance Idle Frozen Dropping Bosoms Dew Puff Romeo And Juliet Play

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

“Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?" I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning.”

Looks Doe Said Night Turns Asks Half Morning Fool Hundred Tired Seven Hearing Miles Chains Cells Fifty I'm Tired Miles Away

Author:Elizabeth Marie Pope

“How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?”

Ifs Mind Might Happens Running Remember Courses Pleasure Seeing Serious Married Difficulty Hungry Occasions

Book:The Sherwood Ring

Source: The Sherwood Ring

“and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old”

Knows Happens Growing Growing Old Nobody Knows Rags Forlorn

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.”

Ifs Believe Mean Able I Believe Nations Racism Wounds Heal Wounded Contradictory Incomplete Blackness Faltering

Author:Bell Hooks

“I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”

Young Spirituality Black Consciousness Students Solitude Prison Males Thinker Black Males

Author:Bell Hooks

“For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.”

People Book Reading Community Pleasure Path Share Conversation Painful Clubs Solitary Communion Book Club

Author:Bell Hooks

“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.”

Ifs Want Community Differences Justice Privilege Recognition Beloved Beloved Community

Author:Bell Hooks

“Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.”

Knows Different Universe Justice Moral Violence Perspective Integrity Demand Complexes Accounting Retribution

Author:Bell Hooks

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