Challenging power structures ...

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
 Patricia Hill Collins

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We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.
 David Beckham
I like to challenge hitters with a 'Here it is, hit it,' mentality. It's definitely a big part of my game, especially when I get in situations where I need it. I usually save a little bit so it's there for me.
 Justin Verlander
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
 Patricia Hill Collins
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
 Patricia Hill Collins
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
 Patricia Hill Collins
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
 Patricia Hill Collins