#big

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#certainty #humility #knowledge #policy #humility

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#prejudice #racism #small-mindedness #prejudice

Callipygian. Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#butts #french

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#give #noble #offense #should #take

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#hispanic-american #identity #latina #latina-american #latino-american

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bigot #bigotry #bigots #delusion #denial

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates. ↗

— George Orwell

#chess #orwell #philosophy #mysticism

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#bigot #i #kind

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people. ↗

— J Allard

#big #big deal #couch #deal #floor