Emma Bull Quotes

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

People are always put in a box or slot.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

There are two words for everything.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

All of the universe will be divided into two parts.

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.