#co

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#had #i #life #uncomfortable #whole

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#come #enjoyed #had #i #in the past

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ↗

— Bono

#heroes #made #mistakes #ones #recovered

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#eye #fear #handle #hard #having

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#does #happens #left #memory #something

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#brother #could #doing #friends #had

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#another #another way #because #certain #certain way