"Ideas are only as good as their execution"

“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.”

Source : "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, nationalseedproject.org. 1989.

“Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things ... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.”

Source : "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There)". Book by Peg Bracken (Fawcett Crest edition, p. 37), 1969.

“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”

“What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?”

“There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.”

Source : Allison Winn Scotch (2010). “The One That I Want: A Novel”, p.270, Crown

“People want to see things that are visually beautiful.”

“I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.”

“The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.”