Jeff Chang Quotes

#1. When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

Charles Eisenstein

#2. Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

Marcy Kaptur

#3. But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People

Jeff Chang

#4. I realize you're planning on fighting all the dragons single-handedly-"
"I'm going to protect you from John, dammit. Show him that he can't fucking mess with you. This is about territory."
Tom narrowed his eyes. "Are you going to piss a circle around me too?"
"If that's what it takes.

S.E. Jakes

#5. Generations are fictions.

Jeff Chang

#6. In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

Peter Welch

#7. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Mortimer J. Adler

#8. A turn in fortune should move us toward empathy and solidarity....But we live in a time when merchants of division draw us away from mutuality and toward the undoing of democracy itself.

Jeff Chang

#9. If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun

Kevin Costner

#10. Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands of the state or structures that kill.

Jeff Chang

#11. Millions wanted to see shows written, directed, and acted by people of colour telling stories about themselves. Duh.

Jeff Chang

#12. But racism and inequality would never end if Blacks focused on easing white anxiety.

Jeff Chang

#13. Institutional neglect of racism and injustice is the exercise of power, the kind of power that refuses to notice and refuses to speak.

Jeff Chang

#14. It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development.

Christina Dodd

#15. In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

Ian Peebles

#16. In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Gore Vidal

#17. Look, I'm outspoken.

Hillary Clinton

#18. I steal, Winkle said, with a smile that said I'm joking and a glint in his eye that said I'm not.

Orson Scott Card

#19. Rejection was like sandpaper. His skin sloughed away under its constant onslaught. After a while, Samuel wasn't sure which would last long: himself or his dreams.

Nicola Yoon

#20. Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.

Alberto Villoldo

#21. People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well.
'Here you are, now entertain us'.
But are we allowed to lead?

Jeff Chang

#22. Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write ... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

Glenn Quinn