"If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis."

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Eric Liu

#Years Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.”
“Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.”
“I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom .Â .Â . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was .Â .Â . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.”
“Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.”
“Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.”
“Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.”
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.36, Delacorte Press
“When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.”

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