Preconceptions

I expect people who don't look like me not to be like me, a reasonable expectation, as expectations go; but it makes my mind slow to admit that people who look like me may not be like me.

Ursula Le Guin (Changing Planes)

Silence is golden?

Those wo can't talk, and those who can talk but don't, have the great advantage over the rest of us in that they never say anything stupid. This may be why we are convinced that if they spoke they would have something wise to say.

Ursula Le Guin