“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.” WritingIdeasEndsCharacterFormOrderFightingBlackWaterImaginationMemoriesFireBattleShapesPaperLaborLogicSightArmyMetaphorSpreadRageMarchFlagsMagnificentInkLegendaryPowderWagonsArtilleryCavalry Author:Honore de Balzac
“I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I have to pay to be the most famous man on earth and I do it with pleasure only for God. My fight is only and introduction to the real fight, the one for God. Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.” PeopleMenWantNeedsKindI CanRealHelpingEarthFightingBlackInterestPleasurePayMediaCharitySpreadExpensiveBlack PeopleMy ThoughtsIntroduction Author:Muhammad Ali
“Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.” PeopleWantNeedsKindHelpingFightingBlackInterestMediaCharitySpreadBlack PeopleMy Thoughts Author:Muhammad Ali
“In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.” PeopleThinkingI CanStatesProblemAmericaBlackWhiteIssuesRightsGroupsCrimeDrugEqualOriginalsSlaverySpreadTargetUnemploymentSegregationEqual RightsDissentSuppressionMeasles Book:On call: political essays Source: On call: political essays
“One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.” SoulHateBlackWhiteHatredSpreadYour SoulMilkInk Book:A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994
“When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.” PeopleMenTryingWholeGuyStrongBlackCreativeTroubleTvsMessagesSpreadWho We AreInfluentialThugBlack Guys Author:Thomas Jones