#misunderstand

I'm a lion in a strange land. ↗

— Criss Jami

#awkwardness #beast #courage #different #earth

...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception. ↗

— Krista Tippett

#liberalism #misunderstanding #niebuhr #self-deception #terrorism

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#storytelling #respect

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#disturbed #greater #having #misunderstanding #misunderstood

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized. ↗

— Walter Washington

#came #changed #city #greed #hate

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#funny #funny-but-true #genius #geniuses #gift

I am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#misunderstanding #poem #poetry #william-carlos-williams #change