“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.” PeoplePersonsFormUnderstandingBlackDealsPrinciplesEvolutionEssentialsSkinsMachinesIntelligentEnvironmentalFinalsLimitationMachineryOur EnvironmentReproductionMetallicAnthropic PrincipleIntelligent Machines Author:Frank J. Tipler
“We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.” KnowsMindAgeUnderstandingBlackWhiteCenturyRedCoffeeBreadTargetApocalypseAbyssSpidersUnderworldDaily BreadConveyingSplintersOur Daily Bread Author:Brian Aldiss
“When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.” HumansHas BeensTwoSometimesTodayUnderstandingBlackHuman BeingsWhiteRoomsAwarenessColorReadyRacismEncounters Book:Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.” PeopleWantShouldPersonsMightWould BeHateUnderstandingBlackWhiteDirectShould HaveAwfulAfrican AmericanFilmmakerPortrayingBlack Person Author:Mick Jagger
“The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.” MayUnderstandingBlackRaceDangerousRacismConceptsAspectNotionFolksInsightAfrican AmericanRacistOverwhelmingScholarshipValiditySexist Author:Bell Hooks
“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.” HeartDoeSelfFormOrderUnderstandingBlackStruggleFeminismProjectsFemaleDeterminationRevolutionaryCollectivesSelf DeterminationVehicleDominationCritique Author:Bell Hooks
“It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.” PeopleThinkingAmericaOpportunityUnderstandingBlackWhiteLevelsMistakeTalentSexualityEquationsBlack America Author:Viola Davis