{"id":12696,"date":"2026-01-04T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12696"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:26:27","slug":"quote-to-start-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/01\/quote-to-start-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote to start the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While researching <a href=\"https:\/\/sorokutoyoshima.wordpress.com\/available-for-purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neo-Dadist sculptor Soroku Toyoshima<\/a> this afternoon, I ran across a quote by his son that feels like it&#8217;s meant for the coming year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a175f8dfddda391fdc57ca11766f258d\">&#8220;Create dialogue, because in the end, you\u2019re not going to change people\u2019s minds by telling them they\u2019re dumb.&#8221; \u2014 Tak Toyoshima<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes from a 2021 interview titled &#8220;Teach-In on Race: Tak Toyoshima on Using Art to Heal the World,&#8221; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/today.emerson.edu\/2021\/11\/02\/teach-in-on-race-tak-toyoshima-on-using-art-to-heal-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emerson College website<\/a>. Tak is probably best known as the creator of the &#8220;Secret Asian Man&#8221; cartoon. And while he&#8217;s not exactly a Unitarian Universalist, Tak is UU-adjacent, with a spouse who&#8217;s active in a local UU congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching Neo-Dadist sculptor Soroku Toyoshima this afternoon, I ran across a quote by his son that feels like it&#8217;s meant for the coming year: &#8220;Create dialogue, because in the end, you\u2019re not going to change people\u2019s minds by telling them they\u2019re dumb.&#8221; \u2014 Tak Toyoshima This comes from a 2021 interview titled &#8220;Teach-In on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/01\/quote-to-start-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote to start the year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}