We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there’s a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don’t even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism. Hiro Murai Read Quote
I felt Nigeria didn’t have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn’t have to let the economy stagnate. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Read Quote
What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary. John Delaney Read Quote
I don’t sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad. Lorrie Moore Read Quote
The only story my grandfather tells me about his days in the NFL is how much better he was than me. Clay Matthews III Read Quote
As economists bandy about terms like ‘recapitalization,’ ‘credit lines,’ and ‘liquidity,’ families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world. Sharan Burrow Read Quote
Whatever adults don’t understand, because they didn’t grow up with it, is the thing they’re going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll. Warren Spector Read Quote
