“The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.” TryingPastBlackBreakRevolutionDenyAcceptedIndianHeritageMexicoMexicanOver The PastMexican Revolution Author:Carlos Fuentes
“It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.” NightBlackImaginationExistenceStudyGroupsMaterialsProfoundDenyKicksPacksStreaksPuritanMorbidMassachusettsMacabre Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.” PeopleSoulFacesSocialBlackGriefPossibilityProfoundDenyFeaturesBlack PeopleRootedAgonyExistentialGeographyHeirsSpooky Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'” PeoplePersonsJobsActorsBlackWhiteNiceHeardSecurityCarThousandTenDenyMovieScareCopCrapLoanSalesmanRippedLemonsDepositsLandlordBlack PersonNice DayCar SalesmanHave A Nice Day Author:Michael Moore