"The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan."

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Ishmael Reed

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Class Quotes

“In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.”
“The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few”
“Anything can be a musical if it makes sense for it to be a musical.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what youâ€™re capable ofÂ achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that youâ€™re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.”
“Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.”
“I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.”
“Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.”
“So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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