"Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist."

-- Peggy McIntosh

#Opportunity Quotes #White Privilege Quotes #Racism Quotes

“She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.”
“If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.”
“I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.”
“God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.”
“I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.”
“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (1987). “The haunting of Hill House”, Penguin Group USA
“When we invest ourselves in deep personal relationships, we take a risk. We could always get hurt. The more we expose ourselves, the greater the potential for pain. No one can hurt us like someone weâ€™ve trusted with our heart. No one.”
“I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.”

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