Afro American Studies Quotes & Sayings

Others died, but it happened in the past,
The season (as all men know) most favorable for death.
Is it possible that I, subject of Yaqub Almansur,
Must die as roses had to die and Aristotle? — Jorge Luis Borges

law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law — Oliver Goldsmith

I hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me. — Charlaine Harris

You couldn't learn age, but adulthood was there for all. — Toni Morrison

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage. — Robert Stack

HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY.
And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain. — Neil Gaiman

If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad. — Ellen DeGeneres

My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas. — John Feinstein

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art. — Lytton Strachey

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. — Lindsey Graham

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo — Robert Solow

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life. — Jay Saunders Redding

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. — Jamie Lee Curtis

We know that real life is "eucharist," a movement of love and adoration toward God, the movement in which alone the meaning and the value of all that exists can be revealed and fulfilled. — Alexander Schmemann

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. — Nathan Myhrvold