"In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person."

-- Martha Minow

#Fall Quotes #Race Quotes #Names Quotes

“The first thing that Shaytan (Satan) will try to do is get you to stop praying. You know why? Because he has to kill the guard if he wants to penetrate the castle. Once the guard is gone, then Shaytan(satan) can open the floodgates for evil. And he has a lot of patience. He has done this to many people before so heâ€™s experienced as well.”
“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do â€” mostly with my time.”
“We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.”
“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”
“God deserves the best from us.”
“Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
“I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.”
“I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.”

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