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When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. ”
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. ”
I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material. ”
The only ultimate power you have as a human being is over your choice to live or die. Everything else is chaos. If you try and think you have control over some of your life, essentially, that's the only real control you have, is whether you decide to exist. ”
We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such. ”
When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters. ”
When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. ”
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ”
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. ”
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ”