"Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are â€œuniversally accepted.â€"

-- Manning Marable

#Racist Quotes #Faces Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.”
“Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.”
“Youâ€™re too visible, Albert,â€ Hadrian explained. â€œCanâ€™t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull off your fingernails until you tell them what weâ€™re up to.â€ â€œBut if they torture me, and I donâ€™t know the plan, how will I save myself?â€ â€œIâ€™m sure theyâ€™ll believe you after the fourth nail or so,â€ Royce said with a wicked grin.”
“Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.”
“I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.”
“Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.”
“I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.”
“I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.”

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