“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.” MenBodyIndividualBrainBloodFiguresInformationFundamentalsInstinctSpeciesCollectivesSolitarySuperiorityInferiority Author:Philip Wylie
“Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.” NeedsFirstsSexBloodFiguresKeysDrugFeaturesSaturdayCultFridayGorePuppetsScreeningMansonAvalonSex Drugs Author:John Roecker
“What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.” PeopleLittlesUseValuesLanguageRaceBloodFiguresBiologyHeritage Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.” MadeEnoughHumorFunnyMotherFatherBloodFiguresProudIndianQuartersArithmeticCherokeeCherokee Indian Book:The Will Rogers scrapbook Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook
“I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She was talking about her father and his brothers. And I remember my mother's tales of how competitive they were with each other and how they would play for blood, you know. And I thought - I'm an only child, and I don't know what that's like. I have to figure out the Southern thing.” KnowsChildrenPlayRememberMotherFatherTalkingBloodFiguresReadyBrotherTalesSouthernCousinOnly Child Author:Cynthia Nixon