Stuff Happens.โ Thatโs the G-rated version. Thatโs a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isnโt straight, anyone who isnโt male, anyone who isnโt white, anyone who isnโt upper middle class knows that stuff doesnโt just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isnโt osmosis. And so we act as if itโs this passive thing, but yet thatโs not the case.
Tim WiseThe power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.
Tim WiseAs a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular โhookโ upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
Tim WiseWhen I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.
Tim Wise