Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

There is no reason to teach an ape to become human. There are many reasons to teach some apes and some humans to transition the worlds between the species boundaries, especially when our genetics are so similar as to make us 'siblings.' It is the way to learn how we become that which we are. ”

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species. ”

Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can't say to humans. ”

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. ”

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart. ”

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. ”

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me. ”

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness. ”

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual? ”

Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end. ”