Quotes About Othering

#1. After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Christine Pelosi

#2. He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#3. I say we cut a path right down the fucking middle and kill anything that moves," I growled.
Ristan raised a brow and whistled. "Damn , Flower. That almost made me hard. Shock me with that blood thirsty little inner vixen.

Amelia Hutchins

#4. We only know how to lose and be lost.

Sherman Alexie

#5. I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

Michael Ian Black

#6. Your real home isn't your patterned self. It isn't your thinking. It isn't your feeling. Your real home is the deepest within that you know the truth of. Your real home, your only home, is direct knowledge.

John De Ruiter

#7. A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone.

A.E. Samaan

#8. Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?

Leslie Parry

#9. At least Anne Frank," Comrade Snarky said, "never had to tour with her book ...

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Scars are the proof you're stronger than what tried to hurt you, duckling. Don't be ashamed of them

August Clearwing

#11. You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

C.S. Lewis

#12. It doesn't take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an 'us' and a 'them.' And a spark.

Ada Palmer

#13. This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Carrie Brownstein

#15. We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.

S.A. Tawks