“I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.” SaidDoneBlackProductsWorthwhileSoarBlack WomenRecognizing Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.” MenWritingLittlesBookBlackWhiteProductsCoupleLocalsWhite ManFifthPrintedGeorgiaOnce Upon A TimeGeorgians Author:Joel Chandler Harris
“It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.” FilmPoliticalDeathWishBlackWhiteForeverProductsSellsFinancialHospitalsShadeFear Of DeathLive ForeverPharmaceuticalDoomsday Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.” PeopleThinkingShouldSoulProblemCultureNamesBlackConsciousnessTalkingIdentityProductsSlaveryHip HopRapHipsHopsBlack PeopleOne Word Author:KRS-One
“[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.” MeanDoeFactsSchoolBlackWillingProductsConstitutionPrejudiceCourtAssumingMereInferiorsViolationUnconstitutional Author:Clarence Thomas
“Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.” PeopleDifferentSelfWould BeValuesCultureStuffBlackTelevisionProductsPleaseSafeSellsIncludingTechniqueConsumersIronyShockAgendasCynicismEthosBlack Humor Author:David Foster Wallace
“Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.” WantBlackCasesDogProductsStressOur SocietyDisorderInherentBipolarManicBipolar DisorderManic Depression Author:Adam Ant
“I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.” PeopleThinkingJobsBlackProductsGeniusRoundsGlassesSpeakersMockGarageDeliveringNew ProductsTurtlenecks Author:Joshua Michael Stern