Quotes About Power

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN "His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own." -- Claude Bragdon

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

The primary function for writing as a means of communication is to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings

The Europeans fight to exterminate us and call it civilizing us.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

From now on, I will no longer leave our fate up to the whims of the universe.

Here's the best thing about being a writer: it's like having a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to imaginary people in a made-up world. Here's the worst thing about being a writer: it makes you wish even more that you had a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to actual people in your own real life" -Autumn

But that's the thing about words. They can't ever really erase other words. They can scribble over them, but they can never make them totally go away." -Autumn

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

Ése es el nombre. Elena sabe desde hace un tiempo que ya no es ella la que manda sobre algunas partes de su cuerpo, los pies por ejemplo. Manda él. O ella. Y se pregunta si al Parkinson habría que tratarlo de él o de ella, porque aunque el nombre propio le suena masculino no deja de ser una enfermedad, y una enfermedad es femenina. Como lo es una desgracia. O una condena.

Aquella tarde, Rita, que no era madre ni nunca lo sería, obligó a otra mujer a serlo, forzando el dogma aprendido hasta llegar al cuerpo de otro.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.

It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.

I suppose if all I had to do was bleach my hair blond to stop white supremacists from wanting to burn crosses in my yard, I might consider blondness myself. Certainly, the forty-fifth president and his family understand the importance of the blond signifier in their campaign to Make America Great Again.

The man doesn't acknowledge you as you sit down because the man knows more about the unoccupied seat than you do. For him, you imagine, it is more like breath than wonder; he has had to think about it so much you wouldn't call it thought.

History's authority over us is not broken by maintaining a silence about its continued effects.

because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying

Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful. You can feel everyone lean in. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she answers. We suffer from the condition of being addressable. Our emotional openness, she adds, is carried by our addressability. Language navigates this. For

joined all the "woke" white men who set their privilege outside themselves—as in, I know better than to be ignorant or defensive about my status in our world. Never mind that that capacity to set himself outside the pattern of white male dominance is the privilege. There's no outrunning the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying.

Looking around, I wonder about all the white parents surrounding me. Are any of them anxious that these white teachers are overrepresenting the race of their child and therefore affirming white dominance and white hierarchical thinking? Are any concerned that these white teachers, with their overwhelming representation of whiteness, are confirming the racist structures we are all subject to? What is my aim here? I

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.