You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.
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If you change your mind and you want to go back and change it, you have th... CHARLES MAGEE I see you in line dragging your feet. You have my sympathy. The day you were born, you were born fre... BRANDON BOYD If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you an... MARILYN MONROE All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futi... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the... AUBREY O'DAY I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fulle... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ... MOTHER TERESA Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most... JAMES PENNEBAKER You do not need others to validate your self worth, you are single because you hold yourself high, u... AMELIA.W if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis... ELVIS HODZIC do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language JUDD NELSON Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. JUDITH MARTIN Players are people who feed upon the ego you build for them putting them on a pedestal that they are... MARLAN RICO LEE you are the one, the only one, who can do anything. you just need to know your ability and capabilit... PRASOON DWIVEDI If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No... 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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about. DASHANNE STOKES You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at... TA-NEHISI COATES Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar... AMIR RIVEROLL A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. WILLIAM FAULKNER Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. You h... RONDA ROUSEY It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you. CASSANDRA CLARE I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t ... WILHELM REICH The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this w... MEGAN DEVINE The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. C.G. JUNG people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you d... MALCOLM BRADBURY You have a right to be you. It is a privilege for others to be around you. JANNA CACHOLA Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard. DASHANNE STOKES What you have within you in your life is what you are after death. If you have explored it to some e... BELSEBUUB go outside at tell the world to f*ck its self! you are who you are! express your self... and how eve... SIMI GREWAL There are only two guidelines in good sex, Don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out wha... ALEX COMFORT As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never h... DREW CAREY O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me, and I gue... BILLY SUNDAY Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your... ANGELA CARTER Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things y... DASHANNE STOKES The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPELL The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPBELL I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think... ALBERTO MANGUEL i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD YOU ARE TOLD TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF, BUT I SAY LOVE THEM MORE THAN YOU LOVE YOURSELF FOR... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know ... TANIA RAYMONDE When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h... ETHEL WATERS Once you realize you do not have complete control over your golf ball, however understand that you d... RICK PRICE You are the architect of your life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but t... MARK ZUCKERBERG As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never h... DREW CAREY It's a privilege to be asked, ... People I talked to asked me, 'Do you know how special that is?' BEN GRAHAM You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - s... ALBERT SCHWEITZER That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f... CORMAC MCCARTHY Don't let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your t... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA You don't have to have money and privilege to have good manners. MARIBETH EVANS You can have anything you need in life, the only price you have to pay is for you to exchange your l... SUNDAY ADELAJA The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or... CHARLES B. HANDY You have more to fear from those who think they know you,Than from those who know they dont. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t... STEPHEN KING Mayor, I thank you very much for your understanding. 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EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III Players are different today. They don't understand that it's a privilege to play this game. It's an ... TONY DORSETT Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and yo... ROB BELL You own your body. You own your body. You own your body. Your center and your edges are yours and yo... JEANETTE LEBLANC Now do you understand why it's so important for you to grasp your belovedness? God won't change the ... JONATHAN MARTIN Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you. MICHAEL STRONG No one will ever understand like I do. You’re so different with me, baby. You take care of me. You... SAMANTHA YOUNG You're beautifulIt's trueI saw your face In a crowded placeand I dont know what to docause I will ne... JAMES BLUNT Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave t... ANONYMOUS. 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Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
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In conversation overbear.
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My tongue within my lips ... JOHN GAY What happiness the rural maid attends,
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She grate... JOHN GAY How bless'd, how envied, were our life,
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Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
Wit... JOHN GAY Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail, reviled; as ofte... JOHN GAY Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part. JOHN GAY A justice with grave justices shall sit;
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To honours and employments rise,
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