I don't like the term 'colour-blind' - because I don't want people to be blind to my colour.
Interpretation
Embracing one's identity is important, and being 'colour-blind' undermines the significance of cultural diversity.
Ruth Negga's quote challenges the notion of being 'colour-blind' in society, implying that it is essential to recognize and appreciate individual identities and differences rather than ignoring them. By advocating for awareness of color and culture, Negga emphasizes the richness that diversity brings to human experience and the necessity for dialogue around these topics rather than a false equivalence that ignores important aspects of identity.
In practice
In a speech on cultural awareness at a community center.
When I was a kid in Ireland, there were not very many black people. I was very much like the strange brown thing, intriguing and cute. I didn't experience racism there. The first time I did was in London. It was that moment that you realize you're black. A kind of lifting of the veil.
What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.
When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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