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"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
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"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
"Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy."
"A single recipe holds countless stories."
"The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or evil. If there was a woman in the story, she was a passive object of desire and rescue (a beautiful blond princess); active women (dark, witches) usually caused destruction or tragedy. Anyway, the stories weren't about the women. They were about men, what men did, and what was important to men."
"Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand."
"Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind them, but had brought the laws of harmony along."
"On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."
"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
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