"Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel."

-- Jordan Peele

#Role Models Quotes #Black Quotes #Nerd Quotes

“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”
“Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?”
“The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he does not take these opinions for models. That man is thought best fitted to depict a period of the past, who is not in the least affected by that period. But only he who has a share in building up the future can grasp what the past has been, and only when transformed into a work of art can history arouse or even sustain instincts.”
“Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.”

Source : 1894 An Introduction to the Study of Society (with George E Vincent, 1894).
“As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that he would fight until he collapsed to keep them from taking me.”
“It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.”
“Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.”
“Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.”

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