Quotes
Authors
Douglas A. Blackmon

"When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our â€œfault.â€ But it is undeniably our inheritance."

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor

Douglas A. Blackmon

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“Would You Wear My Eyes?”

Source : Bob Kaufman (1965). “Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness”, p.40, New Directions Publishing
“How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them. Do they not see the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls? What sins are committed or provoked by conversations which are too free, by immodest shows, by dangerous reading. How lax have consciences become, how pagan morals!”
“It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.”
“If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.”
“Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.”
“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”
“Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.”
“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”

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