Nhlapo Section Quotes

#1. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

Lorrie Moore

#3. Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

Cass R. Sunstein

#4. The laws of economics and many studies of diversity tell us that if we tapped the entire pool of human resources and talent, our collective performance would improve.

Sheryl Sandberg

#5. A smart girl leaves before she is left

Marilyn Monroe

#6. Go ahead and run! Run home and cry to mama!

Sam Raimi

#7. The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

Chuck Klosterman

#8. If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried

Josh Stern

#9. Why do you want to see her thing? Don't you have yours to look at if you really want to see one?

NoViolet Bulawayo

#10. I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Jerry Saltz