Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Robin DiAngelo Quotes

For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to maintain both our comfort and our positions in a racially inequitable society from which we benefit.

Robin DiAngelo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1956

Topics

People Society Deep Meaning Comfort

When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That's the way I thought heaven is.

Jimmy Lai

Future Hope Freedom Thought Hell

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

Joel McHale

Famous Career Goal Fame Horrible

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.

Jennifer Sky

Me Theatre Doing Go More Line

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

Andrew Wyeth

Nature Love Me Color Thought Grow

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

Andy Dunn

Music Best Look Robots Write Punk

Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

Meghann Fahy

New York New Double Being Montreal

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.

Spike Jonze

Together Fake Loved Know Mustache

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Trey Parker

Desire Talk Ever No Desire Sean Penn

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

Robert Fisk

City Think Searching Thieves Seem

I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Rob Lowe

Never Shooting Prom Got Outsiders

Learning disabilities do not go away, but you learn how to adapt. You may have to work a little bit harder; it may take a long time. You just may do it differently - but you can do it.

Michelle Carter

Work Learning Time You Can Do It You

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

Donald Glover

Day Me Writing End Better Acting