"I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it."

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Source : "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

Mat Johnson

#Ideas Quotes #Race Quotes #Care Quotes

“CM has always stood for one thing: Chicago Made. Chick Magnet? Thatâ€™s preposterous. Girls donâ€™t like me. I was born and raised in Chicago. The city made me. Punk is just because Iâ€™ve always been a smart-mouthed, wise-ass punk. I still am. I was the guy, if a bunch of football players were messing with one of my friends, Iâ€™d walk over there and spit in their face.”
“UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.”
“The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.”

Source : Paul Johnson (1972). “The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present”
“Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.”
“A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.”
“And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”
“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
“I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.”

Source : "AK-47 Inventor Says Conscience Is Clear" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. July 6, 2007.

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