We tell ourselves that meaning comes from impact, passion, or finding the "one right path." But these beliefs can leave us feeling stuck — even when our lives look perfectly fine on paper.
And when you heard more compelling, you understood that to mean that I needed to write about hardship and overcoming trauma or pain, um and something that reflected or talked more about my identity as a black girl, a black girl from Detroit, a black girl from a low-income community, a black girl who was first-generation college.
Morrison is one of the incredible thinkers and theorists of racism as a pathology. And when she describes what it is to be racist, she's very insistent that this is a problem of the racist. This isn't actually a problem of the black person.
You can spend all your time trying to prove that we are humans, that we had a civilization, that we have art, that we have culture. But it's a distraction because there's always going to be one more thing. And actually, the problem is not us. The problem is the racist who has no other way of feeling full, no other way of having integrity other than putting someone else down.
There was a time when our party was a thing that we voted for, and, you know, we felt psychologically connected to the party. The party wins, we feel good. If the party loses, we feel bad. But there's still all these other parts of our identity that we have that are linked to our, you know, sense of self-esteem and our place in the world.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew
If no pieces of the original ship remained in the current ship, is it still the ship of Thesus? If it was no longer the same, when had it ceased existing as the original ship?
And Mullen didn't really have that same kind of identity. And so I was kind of curious what his political acumen was when it came to sovereignty in policies that affected native people.
We're often our own worst critics. Yes, you know, I know a lot of people will be watching this series and thinking, is Riz playing himself, playing a character? And so much of this, you, well, all of it, you wrote. So it comes from real experience as well as your imagination.
There's a lot of me and Shah, but I think actually there's a lot of Shah in all of us, more than we like to admit. And really the show is about this feeling that life sometimes feels like one big audition.
the gap between that public self and the messy vulnerability of our private selves is often huge. And that's true whether you're talking about how your life is actually going versus the Instagram post you just put up or that you saw of someone else, or how professional and put together you're seeming on a Zoom call when actually you're not wearing any pants, just out of the frame.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.
You can't be a part-time person of principle. And I say certain things are important and it's not about um loyalty cuz I don't really believe in it as a as a thing... but this was about me and what I thought was the thing that was most resonant with who I am.
You're not even choosing what you actually like. There's a widely circulated essay from a writer named Jasmine Kanik, who said that pressure lands as a recognition for grown women, and she used that term specifically. And I want to read an excerpt. She writes, What Jill Scott offers in Pressure is something rare. She names the weight grown women carry quietly, the pressure to be everything, hold everything, absorb everything, and will still make it look graceful.
Like these are issues that have been with scouting almost since the beginning and that is what we're going to get into today. Like how these questions and controversies over race and gender have shaped the world of scouting back in the day and now.
It's about gender and race and a push for seemingly very, very small acknowledgement of womanhood or I guess I should say against a denial of womanhood. It was about the right for black women to be called miss and addressed as adults.
I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. I had a great black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence. It's not doom.
I was afraid that if I wrote that book, I was going to be a black single mother for the rest of my life. But also, as I wrote this book, I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence, it's not doom.
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