"There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more professors of color being employed by these institutions maybe there will be some change in the student populations."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Porochista Khakpour

#Color Quotes #White Quotes #Population Quotes

“It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.”
“There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.”
“Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.”
“And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.”

Source : Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.
“Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.”
“Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.”

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge
“I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.”
“Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.”

Source : Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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