"Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a relationship to be discussed in any other manner."

-- Nate Parker

#Color Quotes #Race Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Les Miles looks like the mad science genius.”
“The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.”
“I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.”

Source : Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.
“We dreamed together of the world remade.”
“I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?”

Source : David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.72, Wesleyan University Press
“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”
“I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.”
“My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!”

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