It Was Said...

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

“Privilege does not mean that you’re rich, that you’ve had an easy life, that everything’s been handed to you, and you’ve never had struggle or to work hard. All it means is that there are some things in life that you will not experience— or ever have to think about— just because of who you are.”

“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.”

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.

Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’  What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’ This is the matriarchal approach to learning.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”

“Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.”

Art is what you can get away with.