When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.
Interpretation
Living as a minority molds one's perspective distinctly from those in the majority, revealing differing experiences of reality.
This quote highlights how the experiences of individuals from minority groups provide them with unique insights and understandings of the world, which differ significantly from those of majority individuals. By emphasizing the difference between physical and psychic spaces, it suggests that despite sharing the same environment, the emotional and psychological experiences can be vastly different based on one's social position or identity.
In practice
During a speech on diversity and inclusion.
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.
In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.
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