"When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised."

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Source : "Why Blacks Know Race Is a Factor" by Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

James A. Forbes

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
“However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.”
“Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.”
“...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.”
“It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.”
“I'm a guy who should not have a lot of free time. But when it comes to vacation, I like to pull the plug completely. It's all about my daughter - I'm no longer the star of my own movie.”
“I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.”
“White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

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