The Daughters' Baggage Quotes

“We’re all just a range of shades of brown, sometimes with a little bit of other colors mixed in, like pink and red. But people are funny about stuff like that. We all share the same ancestors, if you go back enough generations. We all come from Africa.”
― Diane Winger, The Daughters' Baggage

“There’s no scientific basis for it.” He’d go on about climate and exposure to sunlight and the beginning of agriculture and diet and all sorts of factors, but she was fascinated at the concept that so-called white people were simply descended from people whose environment left them with a need to absorb more vitamin D from the sun.”
― Diane Winger, The Daughters' Baggage

“Like I’ve said, prejudice means pre-judging. Making assumptions without taking the time to learn. Ignorance is the cause and ignorance can be overcome with knowledge.”
― Diane Winger, The Daughters' Baggage

“No, but it is necessary so we can live. It is the people who do not know this, who think every day about the bad things in their life, who turn bitter and cruel. It is like they are already dead, they are so cold and filled with hate. Like the fundamentalists. So much hate,” she said, shaking her head. “Faraz and I, we do not want to become like those people. We wish to be alive.”
― Diane Winger, The Daughters' Baggage