“All of them have taught me that friendship is precious, that it involves showing up, that it involves supporting and helping, that it is not always about the grand gesture, but rather about the small one.”
― Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
― Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
“How do we memorialize an event that is still ongoing?”
― In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
― In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“I'm sometimes not sure which is the more remarkable: life lives up to great paintings, or that great paintings live up to life.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“I would combine radical honesty with an old rule Warren Buffett has, which is praise specifically, criticize generally.”
― The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
― The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
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