“Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.”

— Richard Wright

Native Son (1940)

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African-American writer 1908–1960

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

Source: Tuck Everlasting

“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so.”

Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer

“We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

As quoted by James Baldwin, “Highroad to Destiny,” a chapter in Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln, New York, NY, Hill & Wang, 1993, p. 97, (Rev. King speech to a black congregation in St. Louis), reprinted from the February, 1961 issue of Harper’s magazine under the title: “The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King.”
1960s

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Variant: It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Source: Asfixia

“We are living in such a complex world, [and] we believed that it is necessary for Chinese to be. The important thing is that they can't.”

Hu Xijin (1960) Chinese journalist

我们就生活在这样一个复杂的世界中，我们认为中国人没必要因为给那些西方精英讲不通而懊恼。重要的是，他们拿新疆问题发难起不了什么实际作用，这些攻击是很热闹，但又很虚无的一堆泡沫。

社评：西媒不断炒作“新疆文件”意欲何为？

Global Times

2019-11-26

https://opinion.huanqiu.com/article/9CaKrnKo0mf
Quote, 2010s