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“When asked how he’s been able to have such a long, successful career, Snoop Dogg replied: “I’m the dumbest person on my team and that’s how I do it.”
― Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

“It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“No, “diversity,” as Tania Canas so succinctly puts it in her essay “Diversity is a White Word,” is about making sense of difference “through the white lens…by creating, curating and demanding palatable definitions of ‘diversity’ but only in relation to what this means in terms of whiteness.”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

“In the meantime, I’m proud to say I’m no one’s Noble Savage and I’ll continue to write what I please. Though maybe I will learn how to powwow dance—alone, in the privacy of my living room. It looks like good cardio.”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

“I wanted to do something as badly as a genie who’s been let out of his bottle for the first time in a thousand years. Anything at all: Raise up castles, lay waste cities, program in Basic, or embroider in cross-stitch.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“Managing diversity means treating everyone, not equally, but equitably.”
― Donna Brooks, Seven Secrets of Successful Women: Success Strategies of the Women Who Have Made It - And How You Can Follow Their Lead