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- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,…
- How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
- We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
- I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely…
- Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and,…
- There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt.…
- Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster