"Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

David Roediger

#Taken Quotes #Groups Quotes #Stories Quotes

“When was the last time you saw a documentary that fundamentally changed the way you think? ...Pandoraâ€™s Promise is built around what should be the real liberal agenda: looking at an issue not with orthodoxy, but with open eyes.”
“Itâ€™s just that Iâ€™d rather die of drink than of thirst.”
“One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.”

Source : Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.126, askmar publishing
“No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.”
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”
“Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.”
“I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.”

Source : Howard Hawks, Scott Breivold (2006). “Howard Hawks: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?”

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