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Quotes About Reclamation

I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.
~ Margaret Atwood
I claimed myself and remade my life.
~ Dorothy Allison
A woman trash is another one treasure.
~ Eliotz Cesar
Prometheans were never shy about appropriating symbols.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It appears thou has a thing that belongs to me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
~ Caitlin Moran
The musical era depicted in 'Round and Round' may not be pop's brightest moment, but rather than abandon its ideas, Ariel Pink reclaims them for himself and holds on tight.
~ Anthony Fantano
That summer, in the wilderness of crumbling bricks and mortar, white roses had appeared in those derelict suburbs. Gramps said that if man was mad enough to destroy itself, at least the rats and cockroaches would have front-row seats, be able to enjoy the sight of Mother Nature reclaiming the earth. Outside
~ Sally Gardner
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Life gives you an endless supply of do-overs.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their ancestry, Hip Hop represented a step toward rediscovering what it means to be a Black American, or to be a Latino American.
~ Jamaal Bowman
We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives.
~ Roger Andrew Taylor
'Fat' was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with it, that was the best moment ever. That was the moment I really started to feel free.
~ Barbie Ferreira
'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that I've done when in real life sometimes I struggle with that.
~ MNEK
We were in recycling before recycling was cool.
~ Anthony Pratt
There's a recycling mentality about my work.
~ Wangechi Mutu
My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
~ Daniel Keyes
We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.
~ Kanye West
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
~ Etty Hillesum
What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
~ Janet Morris
It's time for artists to take their music back.
~ Shelby Lynne
One of the greatest gifts for my life as one who serves God is observing the Sabbath. Celebrating a holy day and living in God's rhythm for six days of work and one of rest is the best way I know to learn the sense of our call - the way in which God's Kingdom reclaims us, revitalizes us, and renews us so that it can reign through us. Before we can engage in the practice of our call, we need to be captured afresh by grace, carried by it, and cared for.
~ Marva J. Dawn
The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power. The battle of the poor and the powerless is one of reclamation, not renunciation.
~ Arundhati Roy
We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.
~ Stephen King