
if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
– Junot Daz
Related Quotes:
- What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. – Billy Marshall
- She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all. – Junot Daz
- A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. – Junot Daz
- That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn’t do school anymore. Something inside wouldn’t let me. – Junot Daz
- You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There’s a lot out there. – Junot Daz
- I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart. – Junot Daz
- I mean, shit, what Latino family doesn’t think it’s cursed? – Junot Daz
- Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. – Junot Daz
- But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,’ he wrote back, ‘This is my home. – Junot Daz
- It’s just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it’s over, it’s over. You never get over it. – Junot Daz
- My heart is beating like it’s lonely, like there’s nothing else inside of me. – Junot Daz
- And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows. – Junot Daz
- You’re the only person I’ve ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don’t find every day. – Junot Daz
- Mother????ers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. – Junot Daz
- Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We. – Junot Daz
- If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others’ mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human. – Sandeep Sahajpal
- Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions. – Robert Wald Sussman
- Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced – Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Face your monster boldly, the whole world will cheer you on. Run from your monster fearfully, Heaven will cry over your pieces. – Jessiqua Wittman
- There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something. – Chloe Thurlow
- I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. – Shirley Jackson
- You will always be a monster – there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you. – Julie Kagawa
- After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark? – Darren Shan
- Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat. – Greenhaven
- We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
- I deny morality as I deny alchemy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- I believe in Jesus Christ. He said deny me in front of your friends & I will deny you in front of my father. – Werley Nortreus
- Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
- Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was. – Atsushi Ohkubo
- Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer’s inner vision. – Debasish Mridha
- In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours. – Ilyas Kassam
- All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love. – Alan Cohen
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter F Drucker
- Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive. – Charlotte Pearson
- CONTROL MYSELF?!! I’m a MONSTER! Monsters don’t control themselves! That’s the whole IDEA! – Jeff Smith
- What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents. – Gwynne Dyer
- Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves – Abraham Lincoln
- Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it. – Abraham Lincoln
