Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

One of the downsides of the job is that I am travelling so much, and I don't have so much time to go out and socialise as people who have a more traditional job might do, so it's hard. ”

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace. ”

Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead. ”

The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium. ”

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. ”

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ”

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe. ”

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me. ”

All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom. ”

I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature. ”