To parents who find a child's disclosure about sexual or gender identity challenging, I always urge what I'd call "moderated" honesty. If… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
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My heritage will always be an element in my work but as I've written, traveled, and lived more, I've found that the… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ...[S]aying you're 'pro-life'… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
“You do not exist. I think I exist. I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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“If you set out alone and sovereign, unconnected to a family, a religion, a nationality, a tradition, a class, then pretty soon… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to… — Thornton Willis Copy Share Image
Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
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It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
![“[T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ...[S]aying you're 'pro-life' is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a 'conservative,' for a lot of…” quote by Amanda Marcotte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa6/amanda-marcotte-42391_abortion_t-here-s-a-genuine-disconnect-between-th_2266555.jpg)
![“Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.” quote by Nicholas Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33d/nicholas-murray-47677_huxley_selfhood-is-a-heavy-hardly-translucent-m_3056286.jpg)
![“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges…” quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/062/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_birth_he-understood-the-people-in-a-new-way-th_897711.jpg)
![“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the point. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver?…” quote by Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/58e/boris-pasternak-1944_identity_so-what-will-happen-to-your-consciousnes_2723397.jpg)
