"I live to harass white folks."

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Source : Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press

Derrick Bell

#College Quotes #White Quotes #Obnoxious Quotes

“What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?”
“Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.”
“The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.”
“A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”
“The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.”
“I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.”
“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”
“The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.”

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