Jo Bell Quotes

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

New York is full of crazy people, and I like that.

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Producing is very much like running a business, where you find the project, you find the different people involved, you put the elements together, and you make sure they all work together well.

I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain

I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

Dare to look at the intersectionalities.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

Even when something does not go my way, I get up and fight, that is what keeps me going.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Patriarchy has no gender.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.