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bell hooks Quotes

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1952

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Legacy Black America Seriously Taken

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Reading Pink Black Problem Nothing

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

Live Heart Me Writing Sick Weird

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Funny Dog Pet People Boat Dogs

I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it.

Think Conversation Fast President He

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

People Go New Will Fans Stuff

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Learning Business Myself Experience

I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.

Negative Think Want Sitting Answers

I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.

Life People Me Think American Pie

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

Life Future Focus Succeed You Know

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

Positive Future Hope Present Feeling

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

Women Age I Am Find I Can Play

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Great Me Affection Dead Master Most

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