Youells Reservations Quotes & Sayings

All too frequently in the women's movement it was assumed one could be free of sexist thinking by simply adopting the appropriate feminist rhetoric; it was further assumed that identifying oneself as oppressed freed one from being an oppressor. To a very grave extent such thinking prevented white feminists from understanding and overcoming their own sexist-racist attitudes toward black women. They could pay lip-service to the idea of sisterhood and solidarity between women but at the same time dismiss black women. Just — Bell Hooks

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air. — Reeve Carney

I am drunk with love and afraid of nothing.
I am melting like happiness, enjoying everything. — Debasish Mridha

There are times in
life when the question of knowing if one can think differently
than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is
absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting
at all. — Michel Foucault

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored. — Idris Elba

Some children do what they're told to do; some children do what they're told not to do; all children do what they're parents have done. — Iyanla Vanzant

I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished. — Barbet Schroeder

You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened. — James Heckman

Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency. — Paul Ryan