- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020