"Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself."

-- William Pickens

#Taken Quotes #Color Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“I don't surf the web very much.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.”
“I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.”
“I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.”
“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.”
“It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans.”
“The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.”
“I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.”

Source : "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In". TV Movie, November 7, 2006.

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