Quote for Today: George Saunders
Who am I? Everybody. As Whitman said: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding. And …
Quote for Today: Minnie Bruce Pratt
And despite the punishments for boundary crossing, we continue to live, daily, with all our contradictory differences. Here I still stand, unmistakably “feminine” in style, and “womanly” in personal experience–and …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, …
Quote for Today: Lin-Manuel Miranda
You have to bring all of yourself into a room, not just the parts that fit in. —Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the America Adelante Conference, Harvard, 2018 Photo by Jorge Saavedra on Unsplash
Quote for Today: Anthony Marra
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
…those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we …
Quote for Today: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
It is important to feed this instinctive nature, to shelter it, to give it increase, for even in the most restrictive conditions of culture, family, or psyche, there is far …
Quote for Today: Edward W. Said
No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on …