“Kate Boo’s reporting is a form of kinship.”

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that.

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten.

She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

In my opinion, being an all-rounder is good. It is not right that I should be content with qawwali and ignore other forms, since I am basically trained in classical singing. We should be masters of all forms of singing.