“The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.” ThinkingHumansIdeasFactsBodyFormBlackActivityAuthorityIdealsMadCompareCharacteristicsQuestsIrrationalRationalityHuman BodyObservingObjectivityMeasuringLegitimacyEpistemologyBarbaricTruth And Knowledge Author:Cornel West
“I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.” BlackImagineWorstHolesCharacteristicsPessimistGood CharacterBlack Hole Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.” PersonsSpeakBlackWhiteSouthCharacteristicsGloriousSouth AfricaPositivelyAcknowledgementPortuguese Author:Desmond Tutu