
Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)
PENN Address (2004)
Context: I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heel of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.
Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)
On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “ Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/25/jacqueline-woodson-national-book-awards-invisible in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”
“People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.”
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.
“Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.”
2006 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2006ltr.pdf
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
Extraordinary Machine
Song lyrics, Extraordinary Machine (2005)
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)