"I change myself, I change the world."

-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

#Inspirational Quotes #Change Quotes #World Quotes

“At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.”
“I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.”
“We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We expect the "I" in any nonfiction text to be an autobiographical "I" when there is a history in the essay of the "I" being a persona.”
“For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.”
“I've taken people and fired them over a period of a year. I've fired them over a period of a month. I've fired them over a period of a day or a week, nice and easy, slow. The one thing that a firing always has in common is the next day they wake up and they hate Donald Trump, no matter how nice you are.”
“I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.”
“Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.”

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