"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."

-- Stokely Carmichael

#Voice Quotes #Rights Quotes #Movement Quotes

“What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearanceâ€¦ in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, â€˜to cease to be among menâ€™) just as action in the sense of â€˜to make a beginningâ€™ is a repetition of birth.”
“Experimenters are the shock troops of science.”
“To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”
“I am always searching for more light and space.”
“If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?”
“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.”

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“So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.”
“You can't keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.”

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