"I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression."

-- Alice Mattison

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #White Quotes

“I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us...”
“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.”
“If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.”

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“When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.”
“Men die. It's practically what they're for.”
“Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..”
“To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.”
“The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.”

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