"Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education."

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Source : Liza Mundy (2009). “Michelle: A Biography”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

Liza Mundy

#Prejudice Quotes #Way Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.”
“I donâ€™t think â€˜science fictionâ€™ is a very good name for it, but itâ€™s the name that weâ€™ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if Iâ€™m just called a sci-fi writer. Iâ€™m not. Iâ€™m a novelist and poet. Donâ€™t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I donâ€™t fit, because Iâ€™m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.”
“One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing.”
“Stability means respecting precedents.”
“My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.”
“The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.”
“Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.”

Source : Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books
“Nothing is far from God.”

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