Saturday, March 2, 2013

Anna Quindlen:

But you have to learn to put the fear aside, or at least to refuse to allow it to rule you, because it's fear that tamps down our authentic selves, turns us into some patchwork collection of affectations and expectations, morays and mannerisms, some treadmill set to the prevailing speed of universal acceptability, the tyranny of homogeny, whether the homogeny of the straight world of the suits, or the spiky world of the avant-garde.

Grinnell College Commencement Address

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