A Quote by Noma Dumezweni

I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that. — © Noma Dumezweni
I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.

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I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear.
With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.
Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.
What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.
When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.
Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.
He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
I don't believe in getting into a blame-game or credit-hogging mode whether a film works or not. We are in it together, no matter what the result.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.
I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.
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