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“I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.”

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Paula Gunn Allen was an American poet known for her profound understanding and engagement with Native American culture. Her poetry blends Native American mythology with modern poetic techniques, showcasing rich imagination and profound emotion. more

“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.”

World May America Passion Memories Loss Champion Amnesia World Champions Memory Loss

Author:Paula Gunn Allen

“The root of oppression is the loss of memory.”

Memories Loss Roots Oppression

Author:Paula Gunn Allen

“I don't like needing anyone for anything.”

Author:Jackie Robinson

“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”

Used Plans Consequence Luck Stupidity Selfishness Idiot Bad Luck Rashness No Such Thing As Luck

Book:Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

Source: Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two

“Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.”

Thinking Way Opportunity Illusion Gains Standing

Book:I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.”

Soul Grace Splendor Seductive

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.”

Speak Roots Charity Lips Blow Tongue Strikes Flying Branches Slander Spiteful Roots And Branches

Book:Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum

Source: Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum

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