Beverly Daniel Tatum on may
Beverly Daniel Tatum7 quotes“In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.”
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Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.
Blaize ClementBlaize Clement The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.
Beverly Daniel TatumBeverly Daniel Tatum We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.
Beverly Daniel TatumBeverly Daniel Tatum Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control.
Beverly Daniel TatumBeverly Daniel Tatum To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up.
Beverly Daniel TatumBeverly Daniel Tatum The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
Benjamin WhichcoteBenjamin Whichcote Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
Benoit MandelbrotBenoit Mandelbrot A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
Bernard DeVotoBernard DeVoto Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
Bernard of ClairvauxBernard of Clairvaux More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
Ben ParrBen Parr I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.
Bernhard RustBernhard Rust I didn’t expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
ShakiraShakira Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht