“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.” FormPoliticalLeftBlackViolenceGroupsStudentsCollegeArmyActivismLiberationRadicalismPanthersBlack PantherWeathermenPolitical Violence Author:Marisha Pessl
“It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.” IfsHardUseThreeLeftCausesEasyBlackRaceAuthorityMarchResentmentCopOrganizePolicemenArrestedWhipsMississippiSmackBaltimore Author:Greg Gutfeld
“Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.” PeopleWantNeedsPersonsReasonLeftSexBlackLinesNumbersRaceRightsMovementChangedBehaviorArgumentCivil RightsPlentyAgendasHomosexualCivil Rights MovementBlack Person Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.” PeopleKnowsMenMightTogetherOrderNextLeftBlackWaterChanceMorningSunChildhoodHealthyFamiliarOptimisticInnocenceInterpretationEfficientTailsInconvenientMemories Dreams ReflectionsPuddlesStrandedRetrospectiveTadpoles Author:Carl Jung
“Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.” WayLooksLongHas BeensStillsCountryLeftBlackPresidentFeetRepublicanMovedImprovementStuckTreatedPresident ObamaMudLong WayRight DirectionLong Way To Go Author:Hank Aaron
“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.” IfsGivingLongI CanDifferentLeftBlackRoomsActingStageColorPaintingDirectorsRedGreenPaintMetaphorBrownEditingReally GreatPurpleActing In MoviesRed And Black Author:Scott Glenn
“If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!” IfsWould BeMovingLeftForceBlackWalksCasesSeaAreasRussiaSensitiveTroopsNatoCrimeaCoastline Author:Vladimir Putin
“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.” IfsYearsHumansKindMayMomentsPastLeftBlackSeeingFitTenFiftySixtyMemorialMock Author:Eric Rucker Eddison
“And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.” PersonsSelfLeftBlackCommonBrotherCommon SenseSelf RespectAlsRidingOwnershipLandingDomesBlack PersonShotgunsDispleasure Author:Jason Whitlock
“Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.” LeftBlackPresidentElectionImpactWingsTensionConstructsLeft WingAnimosityEuphemismRacial Tension Author:Dennis Prager
“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsHas BeensCultureLeftDifficultBlackLandBrokenConnectionsStrongerSouthDevelopingWho We ArePavementTransplants Author:August Wilson
“Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.” WorldLife IsLeftBlackWhiteEasierDefinedBlack And WhitePowerlessAmbiguity Author:Amy Plum
“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.” ChildrenHardFacesLeftParentBlackCommunityChurchStruggleTeacherGenerationsIdentityMaterialsHard WorkDisciplineCapacityAdversitySticksLegacyPricelessMy GenerationFacing AdversityCultural Identity Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.” ShouldIdeasSoulLeftSpeakBlackTakenInfluenceDangerousRevolutionSakeObviousFavorsScalesSmallestSymptomsObjectionsRespectabilityPlacid Book:Art & ardor: essays Source: Art & ardor: essays
“I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.” LittlesCountryFactsProblemLeftBlackPresidentLeadershipPovertyPolicyAmountProudWalkingAfrican AmericanAlliesThrowingPresident ObamaBe ProudWalking AwayAmerican President Author:Rick Perry
“Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.” PeopleWorldShouldSongLeftGivenBlackPerfectFindingsWeaponsCreditBitterPhenomenonBitternessHolocaustBitter People Author:Nikki Giovanni
“'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'” WorldLeftBlackStepsSkyLandHairBoundsShouldersDullGravityTravelerCoatsAstronautSpace TravelBlack Hair Author:Samuel R. Delany
“The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.” MomentsLyingLeftBlackSkyNew YorkOceanBlueHealThat MomentHawaii Author:Gavin Rossdale