Quotes 581 till 600 of 661.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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Was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
Quoted in Anne-Marie OConnor, Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his countrys future, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006 -
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
Engleby (2007) -
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
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We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
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We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35 -
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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