She’s really interested in queer voices, she’s really interested in feminist voices, she’s really interested in voices on body size, all kinds of different conversations that are really exciting right now, and I think are the future.
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Quotes tagged ‘Atlantic’
From a drop of water, a logician can infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara, without having seen or heard of either one.
Just looking at an image of nature could be healing.
Transformations come in packages big and small.
...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.
How fragile we are, between the few good moments.
Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.
Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible
It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
Nobody expected that, and that's how things should be.
The quicker I can get somewhere, the better.
Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.
Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.
White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
Floods cause greater property damage and more deaths than tornadoes or hurricanes.
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Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
How fragile we are, between the few good moments.