"When people stop talking, they start communicating. Language can interfere with communication because language limits. As soon as you say something, you’ve eliminated every other possibility of what you might be talking about. We also use language to separate ourselves from other people."
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Joss Whedon, DVD audio commentary for “Hush” (via dancing-mylife-away)
It is important to think about what we say. Our words can do wonderful things, but they can also be painful, limit, and exclude. Examining the privileges I have can help me to understand the ways my words might have unintentional consequences. Am I taking a certain kind of experience for granted? Am I not sensitive to the ways that my experience of government, police, or the school system is different because I am white? Does my middle class upbringing prevent me from seeing that it is much harder to excel in this country when one doesn’t have the resources I have?
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