“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.” ArtStrongGivenBlackWhiteTraditionSizePopulationAustraliaBlack And WhiteCartoonist Book:Oliphant's Anthem Source: Oliphant's Anthem
“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.” SpiritualPoliticalBlackChurchLeaderKingsGayTraditionProfoundActivismRhetoricHostileLutherStaturePolitical RhetoricProfound Spiritual Author:Camille Paglia
“In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.” MenBlackWhiteSituationStruggleRichOne ThingTraditionDemocraticFinalsExtremesGesturesHesitationPoland Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingKindMayUseDreamSpeakLanguageSoundBlackAbilityRaceTakenPiecesTenTraditionTwentiesTongueBlack PeopleMultiplicitySpeaking In Tongues Author:Alexis De Veaux
“I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.” WellsLongHas BeensAmericaBlackStreetsLong TimeTraditionHip HopHipsHopsSociologyPulseBlack Music Author:Quincy Jones
“Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.” RealMatterStoriesBlackDarkTraditionRootsMythRisingWhat MattersGiftedSplendidReal ThingsGroundingHolliesGifted Writers Author:Ellen Kushner
“I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.” KnowsBlackPlayerTraditionCourtExcellenceDukes Author:Grant Hill
“A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.” PeopleIfsFeelsSufferingBlackHurtForgetCompassionEnemyPracticeTraditionAfrican AmericanNeglect Author:Bell Hooks
“Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."” PeopleBlackWhiteDevelopmentCitizensIntellectualTraditionPopulationPrisonerBlack PeopleDylanIndigenousEmergingCritiqueBourgeoisRobustMigrantsIndigenous People Author:Dean Spade
“By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.” PeopleMenWritingMindFirstsLongHas BeensBookDifferentAbleActionMovingIndividualBlackInfluenceTearsSpeechPagesTraditionMarkIndividualityBonesDustLong AgoPersistDifferent PlaceDifferent Times Author:Julian Huxley
“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.” WayShouldUseBlackNaturalRichConcernTraditionTragedyMirrorsRateTongueFlyingBrandsNativeAbandonHeritageAssociationTailsVelvetImpliedIdiomSecond RateBackdropDocileIllusionists Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.” PeopleMadeSoulEndsArtistBlackWhiteTraditionRootsDecadesBlack PeopleSixtyDivorcedPopular Music Author:Jon Landau
“In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at its grittiest. For military history buffs, or those interested in the front lines of the war on terror, Roberts Ridge is a must read.” WarStoriesBlackLinesMilitaryFrontsTraditionTerrorWar On TerrorHawksPathosRidgesMilitary HistoryBlack Hawk Down Author:Jay Winik