Patrisse Cullors Quotes

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

History is about who tells it.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.