Diaspora Minority Quotes & Sayings

Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by distance or time. Such contact is precisely what much modern and postmodern criticism insists we cannot have. Perhaps a secular world view inevitably leads to a universe in which a text is merely a playing field for the reader's own intellectual athleticism. Perhaps only a Christian view (such as Milton's) of the imago descending from God to author to text can preserve the writing of literature as an act of communication. — Leland Ryken

If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself. — Paul Auster

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide. — Jamie Dornan

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place. — Robert Brault

I keep my back turned while he maneuvers his shorts into place. "Are you decent?" I call after a few seconds. No matter how many times I tell him I can't see into the water yet, he insists I'm just trying to look at his "eel." For crying out loud. — Anna Banks

If it were easy it would not be any fun. — T Jay Taylor

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness. — Frederic Raphael

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action. — Bell Hooks

I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society. — Warren Buffett

But what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that. — Anne Rice

In Europe, on the other hand, Muslims find themselves in the opposite position: they are the minority, but they are offered the equality of citizens. The acceptance of reason-based knowledge by Muslims would for them smooth the way to secular democracy, human rights, peace among democratic nations and above all cultural-religious pluralism. If Muslim migrants embrace these values and the related rules, it matters little whether Muslims constitute a minority or a majority. Some leaders of the Islamic diaspora are not favorable to this embracing and make the accusation of Islamophobia every time the shari'a is rejected. This accusation becomes an instrument for deterring any call for change and for incriminating any rational criticism. A call for an embracing of cultural modernity as a platform of peace between civilizations becomes in this perception an expression of Islamophobia. — Bassam Tibi

Can I trust you, Addy?" he asks. I say he can. Does anyone ever answer that question with a no? — Megan Abbott

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. — Immanuel Kant

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful. — Robert Webb