"Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs."

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Source : Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press

Sarah Schulman

#Real Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.”
“You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.”
“I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.”
“Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.”
“Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.”
“I believe there's a strong difference between something being good and something being successful. The successful thing is something we have no control over.”
“I'm not impressed by your money or what you have.”
“I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could”

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