English Studies

🇺🇸Toni Morrison

Literature

1931–2019

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

🇺🇸Bill Bryson

Literature

b. 1951

"Absolute brain size does not tell you everything — or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations."

🇺🇸Jesmyn Ward

Literature

b. 1977

"So I kept pulling my punches. And later I realised that was a mistake. Life doesn’t spare the kind of people who I write about, so I felt like it would be dishonest to spare my characters in that way."

🇺🇸Billy Collins

Literature

b. 1941

"Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God."

🇺🇸John Algeo

Literature

1930–2019

"Theosophy holds that all things, including the human mind, are evolving. We are in the midst of an unfinished world and are ourselves unfinished."

🇨🇦David Chariandy

Literature

b. 1969

"I’m often inspired by the everyday beauty and resilience of black and brown families caught up in deeply challenging circumstances. I wanted to capture this ordinary beauty in its variations and intensity."