We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
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