The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
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Eric Berne
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.
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Karl Pilkington
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Audre Lorde
O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with bold footsteps while eliminating racism, terminating misogyny, destroying homophobia and all other primitiveness that have turned humanity into the most inhuman...
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Abhijit Naskar
Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More Quotes By Ashton Applewhite
Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it–every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.
My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.
It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s...
The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.
We don’t ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?
