Jumaane Williams quotes

“There is a problem here in America when it comes to police violence and gun violence, that I believe is being ignored by not giving the proper resources to communities.”
-- Jumaane Williams

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“Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of family. It is the glue for a healthy community. And to have someone that really wants to dismantle any government involvement in making sure that every community has access to that is very scary. We should be worried.”
-- Jumaane Williams

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“I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on everything that's anathema to what people say that America stands for.”
-- Jumaane Williams

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“We've learned that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and switch it a minute later, and nobody really cares.”
-- Jumaane Williams

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“What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.”
-- Jumaane Williams

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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”

“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”

“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”

“This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.”

“Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.”

Source : Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

“You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.”