"My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly."

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“despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.”
“I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.”
“All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.”
“There is a privilege in American society to being male and being white, and I think it's hard for white males to understand that privilege, because we've never experienced the opposite. When I sought out mentors to try to move forward, there were white males in virtually every position from which I was seeking mentorship. There was a natural simpatico or natural comfort. And so if you believe that's true, and I believe it's true, then we have to change that. We have to try to equalize opportunity and privilege.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.”
“Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.”

Source : Dan Wells (2011). “I Don't Want to Kill You”, p.59, Macmillan
“I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that”
“I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.”

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