27 Quotes by Dolly Chugh

Art steers conversations.

We redefine what it means to be a good person as someone who is trying to be better, as opposed to someone who is allowing themselves to believe in the illusion that they are always a good person.

Hell is not a place where we ourselves suffer. Hell is where you watch people you care about suffer and do nothing about it.

Thomas explains that when a performer walks onstage, with a particular age, gender, and race, we graft things onto who they are. His direction was an attempt to shake up our thinking. 'What we're saying is that it can be anybody, that we're all connected, that we have this thing that binds us and bonds us. We wanted to identify our cast as interchangeable and accessible, but specific early in the show.' Their stories and identities were unique, but their humanity was universal.

America is not always the country it means to be.

Loving America is the most American of things to do. Why does loving America preclude an honest understanding of our history and its influence in our lives?

The differences of the past still form a gap in the present. The differences of the present widen the gap.

The more we care about something, the more likely we are to willfully ignore negative relevant information about it. The more we care about something, the less we want to know.

The person I want to be, the kinds of people we all aspire to be, are better than we actually are.