“We have this misconception about women in the military, that they don't wear make-up, but in reality, they're very feminine women. You can be a tough woman, and still be a very nurturing and emotional parent. It's just not always black and white like that.” StillsRealityParentBlackWhiteMilitaryEmotionalToughFeminineBlack And WhiteNurturingMisconceptionTough WomenMilitary Women Author:Michelle Monaghan
“Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.” PeopleTryingAbleFightingBlackDealsTalkingEmotionalImportanceAngryBlack Women Author:Amandla Stenberg
“A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.” MenHumansReasonBlackHuman BeingsTalkingRolesDogEmotionalSceneConversationJokesSequelsForthcoming Author:Will Smith
“Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.” IfsMayFactsKidsSchoolBlackBoysEmotionalSmartSupposed To BeEnjoymentLiteracyLatinoCombiningOreosEmotional Literacy Author:John Amaechi
“The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.” ChildrenSchoolThreeBlackPresidentWhiteRightsStudentsEmotionalEvidenceBarackDepartmentFundRegulationThreateningThree TimesTransgenderPresident Barack ObamaSuspendedUnrulySchool Districts Author:Julianne Malveaux
“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.” PeopleWorldLawBlackHalfWorstEmotionalAnxietyCrisisCanadaImmigrantsManipulationTrendsExploitationHiv Author:Sarah Schulman
“The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.” ThinkingWorldBlackQualityEmotionalHistoricalGeography Author:Margo Jefferson
“First of all, "redneck" is a state of mind, not a person. So the "racist redneck" thing is a state of mind, not a geographical location. So I don't mean to imply that it's just Southerners. And if you don't recognize the racist underpinnings and the emotional reactive response you're getting from these teabaggers because we have a black president, then you are either being dishonest, or you've never seen the teabaggers.” MindMeanBlackPresidentEmotionalResponseRacistState Of MindRedneckSoutherner Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.” ChildrenBlackBornCommunityDealsEmotionalMomPercentRateSingle MomBlack CommunityDropouts Author:Walter Dean Myers