"If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice."

-- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#People Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Hostage Quotes

“For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.”
“My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”
“The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.”
“Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.”
“I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!”
“It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.”
“You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “Carmilla”, p.33, Booklassic
“I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.”

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