Quote by Nick Laird Download Open image ““There is no privilege as great as that enjoyed by those 'To Whom Things Come Easily'.”” — Nick Laird ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Privilege is often invisible to those who have it. Try looking at the world from another perspective, listen to other people, then reconsider.” — Nevo Zisin Copy Share Image
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Everyone is entitled to be foolish sometimes, but many people abuse the privilege.” — Jim Kraus Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Privilege is like oxygen. You don't realize it's there until it's gone.” — Rachel Sklar Copy Share Image
“The privilege of freedom is precious, the responsibilities of freedom are serious, and we can’t have one without the other.” — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.” — Kevin Abdulrahman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
With an age difference comes a great gap in cultural references, and so on. It's not all about race and gender. It interests me… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child." — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
