- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Afforded Quotes
On what opportunity makes possible.
This afforded quotes collection reflects on privilege and opportunity - the doors that scholarships, careers, and family sacrifice can open. Several lines express gratitude for chances that wouldn't have existed otherwise, especially around education.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Parents
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
- Feel
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Trans talent is not even making it into the audition room, and we're not even being afforded the opportunity to tell our own stories. I feel that is problematic.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.
- Facility
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky that even when I was younger, just because of my look or whatever, I was afforded the opportunity or called on to try. 'Can you do this Hispanic character?' 'Can you do this Italian character?' 'Can you do this Jewish-American character?' I just had to develop a facility for their accents.
- Funny
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.
- Friendship
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
- Family Structure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
- Grief
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
- Equal Rights
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.
- Only
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.
- Food
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020