"In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or vice versa. I mean there was all this back and forth, and there was a lot of opposition in Black America to slavery in Cuba in particular, because slavery in Cuba lasted until the 1880s."

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Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net

Gerald Horne

#Mean Quotes #Next Day Quotes #America Quotes

“My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.”
“Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.”
“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.”
“Never promise more than you can perform.”
“Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.
“I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.”
“Ask because you want to know. Listen because you want to grow.”
“The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.”

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