"[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day."

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Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

Nayantara Sahgal

#Dark Quotes #Light Quotes #Race Quotes

“I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.”
“Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.”
“It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something." And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge." And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
“When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.”
“We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
“The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.”
“I never assign blame in a crisis. There is no benefit to doing so.”
“I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.”

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