"If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance."

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Source : "Sarkozy plays the race card - and our establishment cheers" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2007.

Martin Jacques

#White Quotes #Racism Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to see people, for fear I was making a nuisance of myself. But now I was inspired! I resolved right then to dedicate the rest of my selling career to this principle: finding out what people want, and helping them get it.”
“With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.”
“It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.”
“Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.”

Source : "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.
“Without risk, faith is an impossibility.”
“Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.”
“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.”

Source : Graham Harvey (2005). “Animism”, p.21, Columbia University Press
“If we can think, feel, and move, we can dance.”

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