quotes (people)

If kindness is your criteria for judging people, you may not find so much meaning in other characteristics: gender, sexuality, how someone dresses, their profession, nationality, skin shade, religion, accent, political affiliation, financial status—the long and growing list employed to manipulate us to think of someone as other.

“I think I completely reinvent myself every few years,” Kuang told me. “I have different interests and different expressions and different priorities.”

“I just don’t think I’m very good yet,” she said. “I actually am afraid of being totally happy with my work, because, if you are perfectly satisfied with your abilities, there’s nowhere else to go. You might as well be dead.”