"Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president."

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Source : "The 'Bradley effect' and Obama" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

Douglas Wilder

#Men Quotes #Racism Quotes #Black Quotes

“It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging relationship without making them feel defensive and retreating even further into isolation.”
“Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.”
“Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”
“If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.”
“Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose to make of me, but recognize within yourselves the vitality of your being. And look to no man or no idea or no woman or no dogma, but the vitality of your own being, and trust it. And that which offends your soul, turn away from, but trust yourself.”
“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.”
“I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.”
“Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybodyâ€™s like, â€˜How can you remain with a level head?â€™ And Iâ€™m like, â€˜Why would I ever get cocky? Iâ€™m not saving anybodyâ€™s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. Iâ€™m making movies. Itâ€™s stupid.â€™”

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