Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community. ”

I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell. ”

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out. ”

My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn't know what I needed, and I didn't know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that's why I had to go to community college. ”

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater. ”

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself. ”

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint. ”

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. ”

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. ”

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ”