"Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind."

-- Bill Cosby

#Media Quotes #Black Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.”
“There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.”
“Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.”
“Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.”
“As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to do anything. It made me free to not rush, to not be scared of things and say, "Oh, I have no time," or, "I'm not going to make this or that."”
“Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?”
“Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”
“If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.”

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