"For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President."

-- Howard Zinn

#Running Quotes #Ghetto Quotes #Racism Quotes

“That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.”

Source : Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.509, Chicago Review Press
“Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.”

Source : Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press
“Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.”
“He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.”
“[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Live well laugh often and love much.”

Source : Quoted in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 11th ed. (1937). Often said to be by Ralph Waldo Emerson and to be titled "Success." In fact, however, it was written in 1905 by Stanley and was the firstprize winner in a contest sponsored by the magazine Modern Women. Anthony W. Shipps wrote in Notes and Queries in 1976: "The versions printed in the two local newspapers in 1905 do not agree, and in the many later appearances in print which I have seen, the wording has varied somewhat. However, the
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.”

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