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"I no longer felt like I stood in the middle of a bridge between two cultures but rather that I had a foot firmly planted in each. I was the bridge. My racial and cultural displacement hadn’t assimilated me; I had assimilated it."

"What’s universal is the ability to form concepts that make our physical sensations meaningful"

"What’s universal is the ability to form concepts that make our physical sensations meaningful"

...the moral imagination requires the capacity to imagine ourselves in a web of relationships that includes our enemies; the ability to sustain a paradoxical curiosity that embraces complexity without reliance on dualistic polarity; the fundamental belief in and pursuit of the creative act; and the acceptance of the inherent risk of stepping into the mystery of the unknown that lies beyond the far too fam

"But subtly provoking people’s curiosity, giving new information, and offering new images of the group that is stoking their rage may turn their thoughts in different, more positive directions."