My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I’m not so sure I’m proud of it, but she’s right.
Category Archive: 1930
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren’t simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
Who ever said that one was born just once?
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan’s messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.