“Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.” AmericaBlackEnglandIndependenceDemocraticFranceIndianLatinProgressiveRepublicHeritageMexicoLiberatedLatin AmericaColonyBarbaricDemocratic Republic Author:Carlos Fuentes
“In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.” PeopleKnowsMenWorldWayHas BeensTwoDifferentCountryBlackChanceEnglandImmigrationOur CountryFranceUsaOther CountriesTwo Ways Author:Randy Newman
“There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.” MenKindStillsDifferentCharacterRunningIndividualBlackFeetMankindOrdinaryEnglandNakedBusCostumesDifferent CharactersSudan Author:Evelyn Waugh
“When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantWould BeAmericaNamesBlackWhiteFiveHeardEnglandPropertySlaveAncestorClayTradersSlave TradeCassiusCassius Clay Author:Muhammad Ali
“I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.” PeopleYearsDifferentReasonAmericaCultureBlackWorstEatingMusic IsEnglandSlaveryChineseRanAggressionBlack And WhiteIntegrating Author:Muhammad Ali
“I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.” ChildrenAmericaBlackWhiteProudCoupleWalkingEnglandBlack And WhiteGoing Out Author:Muhammad Ali
“When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.” PeopleStrongBlackEnglandExpectedShockBlack PeopleJaneAusten Author:Buchi Emecheta
“Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.” KindWantedEasyBlackTaughtCollegeMetsMountainAreasEnglandCome UpIslandsYankeesLecturesHarvardEasy To GetNew EnglandPennsylvaniaMaineBuckminster FullerKenneth Author:Paul Laffoley
“Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHomePoliticalFightingHouseBlackWhiteOpinionImagineRedEnglandPaintBarsGiantsHatsWhite HouseSensiblePantsVehiclePoliteSexuallyWhalesMorbidNew EnglandShuttersWaspsPolitical OpinionsMullets Author:Matt Taibbi
“London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.” LawBlackEvidenceEnglandVicesUglyLondonRidiculousDrunkDullCollectionsSpiteDucksImmenseScandalMonumentInsultingCrowDrunkennessNoisyDocks Author:Paul Verlaine
“There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.” IfsStillsCountryWould BeBlackMachinesEnglandUglyMultitudesManufacturingFamine Book:Lectures and Essays Source: Lectures and Essays
“One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.” KnowsYearsSaidBlackCompanyKingsOne DaySittingEnglandPreparationLandscapeEnterpriseChairsVersesCaptainsRoyalIrritatedIrritationKings And Princes Author:Patrick Stewart