Minority


I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Crying in H Mart
The Joy Luck Club
James
Yellowface
The Boyfriend Project (The Boyfriend Project, #1)
The Hate U Give
Between the World and Me
Americanah
The Help
The Namesake
American Born Chinese
Heaven
The Bluest Eye
Christopher Isherwood
...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary...Just ask yourselves: what would this particular minority do if it suddenly became the majority, overnight? 'All right - now along come the liberals - including everybody in the room, I trust - and they say, 'minorities are just people, like us '. Sure, minorities are people, just like us'. Sure, minorities are people; people , not angel ...more
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority. ...more
Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

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