"Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks."

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Source : Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.4, Basic Books

Derrick Bell

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“I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!”
“They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.”
“You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.”
“I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.”
“I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.”
“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.”

Source : John Wesley Powell (2003). “The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons”, p.268, Penguin
“A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.”
“I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. But career-wise, I'd say I'd want to have something most like Madonna.”

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