Quotes About Perspective

Who is us? What is us? Is there even such a concept as an Asian American consciousness?

these quotidian moments that as a whole were more life-changing than losing your virginity or having your heart broken.

But it would be wrong of me to say that we were all on equal footing, which is why I can't just write about my bad English next to your bad English. In my efforts to speak nearby, I also have to confront the distance between us, which is challenging because once I implicate myself, I can never implicate myself enough.

Shame gives me the ability to split myself into the first and third person. To recognize myself, as Sartre writes, "as the Other sees me.

Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

Alcoff calls this self-examination "white double-consciousness," which involves seeing "themselves through both the dominant and the nondominant lens, and recognizing the latter as a critical corrective truth." But

My life overlaps with the lives of others so I have no choice but to take from others, which is why writers are full of care, but also— if they're at all truthful — a bit cruel.

Odd how being away could teach you about home.

book of life, every page have two sides.'" "The

Life has little bits of magic at nearly every turn, if you're looking closely enough. Scrapbooking has refined myselses. it's made me hungry to use it before I lose it. It's made me remember that I don't remember what it was like to be nine years old. And that I will never live in a Pottery Barn house. And that as tiny as I am in the scope of the universe, no one lives a life like mine. Not even the people whose meals I cook, whose laundry I fold, and whose cheeks I kiss at night.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.

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CVIII [...] Se vòi d'Amor o d'altro bene stare, magistra sit tibi vita aliena, Disse Cato in su' versificare

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the beast will edge in and take up all the room inside.

Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.

How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth—the many gods, the animate spirit world—and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

I mean, not everything has to be about race, does

I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. - Bethia Mayfield

It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here. I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. And yet, it is not for me to weigh this balance: Christ, and knowledge against a pagan pantheon and an unaccomodated wilderness existence.

But then again, I was not fifteen anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.