"If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity."

-- Jackson Katz

#Smart Quotes #Rap Quotes #Gangsta Quotes

“I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.”
“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of MoliÃ¨re, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of PixÃ©rÃ©court? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”
“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”
“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.”
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

Source : Carl Little, Edward Hopper (1993). “Edward Hopper's New England”, p.8, Pomegranate
“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.”

Source : "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.
“My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.”

You may also like:

Jean Kilbourne
Author
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Filmmaker
Julia Penelope
Author
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Author
Lisa Ling
Journalist
Michael Kimmel
Professor
Michael Klare
Author
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
Robert Jensen
Professor