Nayvadius Wilburn Quotes

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

The conventional wisdom of the United States is not always the right conventional wisdom.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.