"I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way."

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Source : "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

Nell Zink

#Writing Quotes #White Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Well if I was hanging out with The Bellas, I'd be pretty big too.”
“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,”
“The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.”
“The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.”
“The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.”
“Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.”
“Patience is seeking help only from Allah.”
“Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.”

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