"Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial."

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Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

Ishmael Reed

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“Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.”
“Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.”
“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.”

Source : "The Design of Experiments". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1935.
“History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
“And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart”
“My parents listened to the Outlaws when I was a kid and I just had no interest in it. But my boyfriend at the time listened to Hank Williams III, and I thought that was really cool because he was singing about whatever he wanted to but it was very country.”
“We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.”

Source : "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.
“Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.”

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