“I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentMatterSchoolPainRememberCultureHurtAcceptingOne ThingAcceptanceNormalHatredUnusualHandful Author:Jessie J
“What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.” CountryCultureHurtCryBraveRadicalReactionariesFetishIrrelevance Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.” NeedsMomentsFactsCultureSpeakLanguageHurtLossTroubleGainsSpeciesPoetry IsCelebrationEndangered Species Author:Erica Jong
“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.” WorldWantFirstsKindChildrenCountryMatterPlayCultureFunParentBornHurtPerfectGrowing UpGrowingFirst TimeUniversalSeriesRaisedAll KindsRealizationHaving FunCompanionshipEpiphany Author:Khaled Hosseini
“The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansChildrenBodyUsedCertainCultureIndividualSocialCommunityHurtEconomicRaisesMereMold Author:Michael Gurian