Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
StereotypesPrejudiceRepresentationDouble Standards If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?
InequalityRepresentationOppressionDiscrimination I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Gender InequalityWomen's RightsRepresentationDecision Making Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Art FormsArtistic ExpressionRepresentation The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
ExperienceAuthenticityRealityTruthRepresentation I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
EmpowermentRepresentationInequalityPerseveranceEquality What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
