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but submission is not blind obedience.
Because when I am brought to tears about my life, I need someone to glorify.
Henry Thomas Buckle said, “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
actions speak louder than words, some of us are trying to shout into a megaphone instead of doing the work that will make others shout on our behalf.
When your platform is your paycheck, desperation can reach an all-time high.
Then again, we gotta realize that twenty-six women, over two seasons, went on a show to compete for the love of Flavor Flav, a man who reminds me of a termite,
Choosing not to maximize our positive impact is careless.
am asking each of us to examine our lives, see where we’ve lucked out, and try to make someone else’s path easier than ours.
Teach your children that different isn’t synonymous with subpar. Raise kids who have seen you lead by example. Let them know that to be a good person means embracing all people, even those whose normal may be different from others’.
Privilege comes in many forms, and being popular is one of them.
cannot ignore what’s happening around me because I’m afraid to alienate readers. If the audience I’ve built leaves because I talk about what is important to me, I got the wrong people.
it’s worth it to me to take personal risks for public gain.
When you speak out, someone else might be encouraged to do the same. Do not be silent.
Acting like it’s not your fight doesn’t make it so.
The rich should be fighting for the poor. The healthy should be fighting for the sick. The privileged should be fighting for the oppressed. If the people who support you are being hurt every single day, and you turn your back because the pain has nothing to do with you, then you are taking their very presence for granted.
White women have been shielded from culpability all their lives and through history and have been able to move in the system of oppression without getting blame when they have been active participants in the denigration of people of color and marginalized people. They
money is spent on Viagra for servicemen than for any medical expenses trans people incur.
It’s not enough to personally not do damage. If you’re present as someone else destroys what’s around you and you do nothing, you helped them.
live in America. A country where a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, hate-mongering reality TV star can go up against the most qualified person to ever run for office and win.
