“With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!” YearsBlackModernPaintingQueensColourFortyDiscovering Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.” MenYearsStillsIdeasAmericaBlackPresidentInspireKingsShotsAweFortyLutherBalconies Author:Charlie Pierce
“In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.” GirlSexBlackFortySixtySeventiesJocksGisGet A Girl Author:Mort Sahl