"Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people.""

-- Joycelyn Elders

#Teaching Quotes #Doctors Quotes #White Quotes

“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.”
“I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.”
“Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.”
“The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.”
“You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-”
“The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.”
“Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.”

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