"The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves."

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danah boyd

“I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.”
“A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.”
“And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.”
“I preach darkness. I don't inspire hopeâ€”only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.”
“Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.”
“Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.”
“Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.”
“I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.”

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