Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ”

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. ”

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ”

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ”

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. ”

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ”

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger. ”

I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa. ”

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to. ”

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is. ”