Jane Elliott Quotes
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.Jane Elliott
Quotes to Explore
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Umberto Eco -
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln -
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
R. L. Stine -
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. James
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Adam Hamilton -
Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
Mahesh Babu -
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie -
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday -
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia -
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine Albright
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
Natalie Dormer -
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Quentin Crisp -
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
J. Michael Straczynski -
People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
Octavia Spencer -
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
Ian Caldwell
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With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
Mark Rothko -
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
Olivier Megaton -
A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Charles Lamb -
We almost always forgive those we understand.
Mikhail Lermontov -
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.
Jane Elliott