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“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.”

“Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.”

“O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.”

Black Sweet Wind Clouds Driven Twilight Stormy Black Clouds

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.”

Black White Sweet Flower Rose Driven Snow Crow Gloves Lawns Cyprus

Book:The Winter's Tale: Second Series

Source: The Winter's Tale: Second Series

“I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.”

Writing Character Black Space White Decision Ambition Driven Lust Flawed Black Or White

Author:Kevin James

“I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.”

People Thinking Knows Men Needs Feels Looks Stills Black Imagination Race Taken Fronts Position Killing Incredibles Driven Upset Demon Outrageous Incredible Hulk

Author:Claudia Rankine