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“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.”

Thinking Wells May Country Helping Hands Night House White Policy Normal Crisis Campaigns Tendencies Broke White House Als Foreign Policy Gore

Author:David Gergen

“Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.”

Thinking Way Facts Simple White Truth Is Normal Racism Criticism Dues Manifestation Racist Way Of Thinking Simple Truths White Racism

Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays

Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays

“It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc”

“The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.”

Giving Looks Earth Stars White Behinds Existence Known Moon Normal Perception Window Balls Blue Edges Flight Galaxy Thumbs Thumbs Up Blue And White

Author:Jim Lovell

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.”

Body White Levels Stage Higher Normal Thirds Reactions Instance

Book:Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

“Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.”

People Thinking Men White Break Normal Racism Sexism Stereotype White Man Homophobia Classism

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!”

People Men Years Mean Littles Seems Past White Brother Normal Twenties Majority Los Angeles Disorder Freak Fence Daddy Syndromes American Family Picket Fences

Author:Christopher Titus

“If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.”

Ifs America Black White Levels Risk Truth Is Normal Discrimination Underestimate

Author:Newt Gingrich

“You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.”

House Natural White Existence Impossible Normal White House Bubbles Personal Life Impossible Things Family Relationship Goldfish Normal Family

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the "white" experience, allow for the infinite variety of experiences that exist under such headings, but people love to reduce the vastness of individuality and subjectivity within marginalized types of experience.”

People White Type Behavior Normal Perception Infinite Individuality Lifestyle Instance Variety Headings Subjectivity Vastness Marginalized

Author:Melissa Febos

“Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.”

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Author:Reza Aslan

“I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.”

Body White Building Baby Normal Eating Staying Sugar Regimes Artificial Flour Organic Food

Author:Danica McKellar

“Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.”

Would Be White Normal Meetings Fabric Salad Tuna Pta

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.”

“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.”

Knows Feels Home Black White Our Lives Normal Definitions Silly Versions Hopeful Black And White Subjective Messy Inconsistent Normalcy

Author:Tori Spelling