At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I’d say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We’re not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal – and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That… was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about ‘white men.’
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
There’s always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether it’s Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. – because that’s the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else’s. It’s like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn’t know was there, full of treasure and light.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.