Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
Interpretation
Jealousy stems from imagined scenarios where someone possesses what we think is rightfully ours.
This quote suggests that jealousy is not a reflection of reality but rather an illusion or fantasy that arises when we believe someone else has something that we should have or desire. It points to the absurdity of these comparisons, urging us to recognize that such feelings are often rooted in our own insecurities and perceptions rather than objective truths.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of jealousy, this quote illustrates how our perceptions can distort reality.
If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Each person has a literature inside them.
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going back to an ethnocentric idea of what being English means.
In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise
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