Hank Green Quotes
I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.
Hank Green
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I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be.
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Maya was the most effective talker I knew. It was like she wrote essays in her brain and then recited them verbatim. She once explained to me that she thought this was part of being Black in America. “Every black person who spends time with a lot of white people eventually ends up being asked to speak for every black person,” she told me one night after it was too late to still be talking, “and I hate that. It’s really stupid. And everyone gets to respond to that idiocy however they want. But my anxiety eventually made me extremely careful about everything I said, because of course I don’t represent capital-B Black People, but if people think I do, then I still feel a responsibility to try to do it well.
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The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.
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Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world. And our guess is so obviously correct that other guesses seem, at best, willful ignorance—at worst, an attack.
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Manhattan is less legit than it once was, for sure, but this is still the city that never sleep. It is also the city of ‘Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.
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That entire conversation had the feeling of a pleasant stroll inches away from the edge of the Grand Canyon.
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My annoyance became frustration, which became anger, which became hate, and hate is a long-burning fuel.
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Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
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It’s so much easier for people to get excited about disliking something than agreeing to like it. The circle jerk of mockery and self-congratulation was so intense I didn’t even notice I was at its center. It was so easy to get people to follow me, and in the end, that’s what I wanted.
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When you’re faced with something you don’t understand, I think the most natural thing but also the least interesting thing you can be is afraid...
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John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.
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Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
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