Roxane Gay Quotes

It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.

Roxane Gay

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Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Jessica Capshaw

HealthChallengeWomanWorldMinute

People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

Joan Baez

PeopleMeDoingSayNeverRealist

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

Joel Salatin

MeEnvironmentalMovementBeingBeen

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

John Frusciante

MusicWorldGuitarOverReflectOwn

It's a new situation. Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.

Angelique Kerber

ReachYouGoalSituationNewKnow

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

Stuart Scott

SoulMindDoctorThinkMy SoulSaid

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

PowerReligionPoliticalCult

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

Tom Chatfield

WorldDigitalBoundariesIndividual

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

Rita Dove

HistoryWomanSchoolThinkPicture

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Ruby Dee

FearGodMeUncomfortableWillMake

It's really cool to come from nothing and essentially be a nobody and make yourself somebody.

Logic

YourselfCoolNobodyNothingCome

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Jonathan Dimbleby

YouTaxUnderstandFailPopulation

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