"one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them."

-- Peggy McIntosh

#Race Quotes #White Privilege Quotes #Racism Quotes

“We lose our way around the Bible when we take our eyes off the Cross.”
“Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.”
“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”
“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”
“I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.”
“Happiness canâ€™t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the worldâ€”a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.”
“I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.”

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