#avery

I told you that my idea was great." "They usually are." "Holy [crap]. Did you just admit that?" "Maybe I did." "Uh-huh, you've always known my ideas hit a ten." "On a scale of 1 to 100, yes." "Ha.Ha. Guess what.Got another idea." "Does it involve eggs?" "It doesn't involve eggs." "It doesn't?" "But it does involve something equally tasty. And it involves you, me, a bed, and very little, if any, clothing. ↗

— J. Lynn

#cam #eggs #equality

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#light #equality

That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master of another. We were all meant to be free, and somewhere there were good people helping to heal this broken world. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#american-history #black-history #civil-war #equality #faith

But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a bidding war commenced, amongst these civilized gentlemen who made their living off the backs of slaves. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#black-history #equality #slavery #equality

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#black-history #civil-war #equality #justice #slavery

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#bravery #courage #dauntless #experience #life

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#life #psychedelics #shamanism #slavery #experience

It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#courage #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#exclusion #immigration #judgement #punishment #slavery

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#employment #slavery #education