quotes about Going Home

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

“Never underestimate the power of the dark side.”

“Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.”

Source : "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

“There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.”

“People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)”

“Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.”

“Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.”

“I had never been to Texas. Id been through Texas, but Im so glad to be back in a place thats not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, its rich and saturated in American-ness.”

“In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models – that is, they are responsible for learning.”

Source : "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.”