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“There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.”

Ifs Culture Black Blood Theory African American American Culture African American Culture

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.”

Needs Culture Sports Blood Revolution Humiliation

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.”

Culture Nations Blood Red Shed Oppressed Martyr

Author:Mahmud Tarzi

“Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.”

“When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.”

Source: Southern ladies and gentlemen

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”

People Ifs World Giving Humans Care Culture Found Lost Lines Levels Cities Blood Mountain Train Don't Care Exception Crash Emergencies Earthquakes Supplies Coordinates Martians Hiker Giving Blood

Author:Andy Weir

“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.”

“As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.”

Thinking Years Stills Two Body Culture Enemy Blood Highest Edges Deeds Paradise Primitive Tattoo Gross Drank Skulls Polished Savagery Carnage Valhalla

Author:Jack London

“I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.”

Want Culture Blood Grew Grew Up Israel Soil Sentiments Israeli Nationality

Author:Mili Avital

“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.”

Ends Country Feelings Today Motivation Suffering Culture Blood Security Tomorrow Soldier Iraq Revenge Locals Mates Killers Infant Insurgent Grooming Insurgency Feuds

Author:Yaroslav Trofimov

“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.”

Wells America Culture Violence Blood Identity Building Native Genocide Relative Ashes Ancestry Pun Wreckage Personal Identity Nexus

Author:Anne Waldman

“How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.”

Years War Done Shows Lying Culture Written Blood Thousand Accounts Torture Streams Hospitals Thousand Years Chamber

Book:Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front