“A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.” RealDeepBiasIngenious Book:Finding Gideon Source: Finding Gideon
“Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.” RealPrivilegeBiasIngenious Book:Finding Gideon Source: Finding Gideon
“I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingTryingRealCharacterStoriesLightImaginationIllusionGood StoryRewriting Author:Eric Jerome Dickey
