“I wanted accountability and punishment, but I also hoped he was getting better. I didn’t fight to end him, I fought to convert him to my side. I wanted him to understand, to acknowledge the harm his actions had caused and reform himself. If he truly believed his future was ruined and he had nothing…”— Chanel Miller, amazon.com
“We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!”— Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Norma Desmond, Gloria Swanson, imdb.com
“The real question is: why would a person rather have an enemy than a conversation? Why would they rather see themselves as harassed and transgressed instead of having a conversation that would reveal them as an equal participant in creating conflict? There should be a relief in realizing one is not…”— Sarah Schulman, amazon.com
“I now am able to ask you to read this book the way you would watch a play: not to emerge saying, "The play is right!" but rather to observe that the play reveals human nuance, contradiction, limitation, joy, connection, and the tragedy of separation.”— Sarah Schulman, amazon.com
“Here, the people that I’m objecting to want to stop the dialogue. They don’t want to have the conversation.”— Alan Dershowitz, wral.com
“We don't even bother being curious anymore because somewhere, someone on "our side" has a position. In a fitting-in culture--at home, at work, or in our larger community--curiosity is seen as a weakness and asking questions equates to antagonism rather than being valued as learning.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“The hardest but most important thing is to get a dialogue going on racial issues. I think people want to do better, I really do. I just think they're afraid. They don't know exactly what to do. Nobody wants to make the first move. We can't get past worrying about disagreement, so we don't have meani…”— Charles Barkley, slate.com
“If I want someone to understand my perspective, it helps to understand where they're at and meet them there.”— Laci Green, twitter.com
“[Cultural] appropriation suggests theft, and a process analogous to the seizure of land or artifacts. In the case of culture, however, what is called appropriation is not theft but messy interaction. Writers and artists necessarily engage with the experiences of others. Nobody owns a culture, but ev…”— Kenan Malik, nytimes.com
“Writing blogs on the internet is an amazing way to express yourself and to distribute information, but it's not the best place to discuss ideas with an individual that you have an issue with.”— Joe Rogan, reddit.com
“There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's self…”— Joe Rogan, reddit.com
“The problem with a lot of the subjects that we covered was that I went into them with an open mind, but along the way you discover that most of it is just plain bullshit. It's not just bullshit, it's bullshit with an industry attached to it. People that make their living talking about this bullshit,…”— Joe Rogan, reddit.com
“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”— Michelle Obama, amazon.com