I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet when you say that, you also have to say that they triumphed, that they prevailed.
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow. - Kevin Starr
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
- Kevin Starr
I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them. - Kevin Starr
I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.
It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place. - Kevin Starr
It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.
I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks an… - Kevin Starr
I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks an…
If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here! - Kevin Starr
If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories. - Kevin Starr
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.
I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical… - Kevin Starr
I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical…
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country. - Kevin Starr
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.
I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet whe… - Kevin Starr
I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet whe…
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