"Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar."

-- William Julius Wilson

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“I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.”
“So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame. That sounds cliché, but it's true. I think fame sounds uncomfortable to me, but being able to like write this book and make my living doing very exciting, creative stuff sounds really amazing. It has been really amazing.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage
“This is the message of your life and my life - itâ€™s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. Itâ€™s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.”
“As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.”

Source : "Hermetical Physick of Henry Nollus". Book by Henry Vaughan, Preface, 1655.
“The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.”
“You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.”
“I will have no locked cupboards in my life.”

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