"Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)"

-- Cornel West

#Struggle Quotes #Class Quotes #White Quotes

“But once I saw them [Jackson 5 during audition], I rushed out with my video camera to start taping them because I knew that they were something so special, mainly because of the lead singer, nine-year-old Michael Jackson. And it was just so obvious to me that he was a star.”

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“I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.”
“I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.”
“We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.”
“The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".”
“Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.”
“Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.”
“When I'm working on something and I get to the point where I feel it getting interesting, that's my reward.”

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