Grace Dunham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.
-- Grace Dunham

#Cynicism #American Politics
Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.
-- Grace Dunham

#School #Identity Politics #Alive
I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories being told in mainstream American politics. The issues that I think most about - how many people's lives are being affected by prisons and policing, how many people's lives are being affected by immigration enforcement and deportation - those stories aren't being touched, let alone told, in mainstream politics.
-- Grace Dunham

#Thinking #Issues #People
The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition.
-- Grace Dunham

#Sex #Play #Want
I don't believe in America, but I believe in people.
-- Grace Dunham

#Believe #America #People
It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.
-- Grace Dunham

#Believe #Thinking #People
Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.
-- Grace Dunham

#Two #Groups #Republican

Happiness too is inevitable.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.
The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

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