“The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.” DoeCountrySidesWhiteRichTreeColorSpringOrdinaryEuropeWoodsSymbolsOver YouValleysTidesContinentsBridesLiliesLilacMagnoliasAzaleas Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.” PeopleLooksLongMatterSidesWhiteRolesTeachStudyCenturyColorEuropeWesternCelebrateSeatsExplorationExploitationExtensionsBoth SidesTwentieth CenturyExploitsTextbooksColumbus Book:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.” Has BeensFireColorEuropeRateLocalsSufficientLazyFourthProvenSuperficialIntrigueSkeletonsHacks Author:William Faulkner
“As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.” WayKidsDealsColorAchievementEuropeTasksWorkersImmigrantsSouthernCitizenshipEasternHistoricDespisedUnprecedentedWhitenessEastern EuropeNew DealFosteringImmigrant Workers Author:David Roediger
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.” PeopleKnowsKidsPainYoungViolenceColorEuropeBarriersChicagoTurmoilHaitiAtlanta Author:Common
“Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.” PeopleIfsWayShouldDifferentColorEuropeTechniqueMediumsDifferent WaysChefDifferent PeoplesSteakOmelets Author:Wolfgang Puck
“In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.” CommonColorBecomingEuropeImmigrantsContempt Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison