"Privilege is least apparent to those who have it."

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Source : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

Clarence Page

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“Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.”
“I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.”
“The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.”
“Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.”
“I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.”
“Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.”
“I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.”
“Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb (House of War). All countries, where Islam is not the ruling authority, are Dar al Harb. It is the duty of the Muslims to wage Jihad in Dar al Harb, overthrow the governments and force people into submission. This is the only kind of peace that Islam recognizes.”

Source : Source: myislam.dk

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