Assimilationists Quotes & Sayings

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn. — Britney Spears

Catholicism has changed tremendously in recent years. Now when Communion is served there is also a salad bar. — Bill Maher

I love cosmology: there's something uplifting about viewing the entire universe as a single object with a certain shape. What entity, short of God, could be nobler or worthier of man's attention than the cosmos itself? Forget about interest rates, forget about war and murder, let's talk about space. Rudy Rucker21 — John D. Barrow

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible. — Heraclitus

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies. — Judd Gregg

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. — Lester Bangs

What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart — William Shakespeare

I was thinking about what a magical portal this lobby was when the heavy glass door opened as if swept by wind and a familiar figure in a black and scarlet cape entered. It was Salvador Dali. He looked around the lobby nervously, and then, seeing my crow, smiled. He placed his elegant, bony hand atop my head and said: You are like a crow, a gothic crow. — Patti Smith

Rocky Hawkins has written a rare, fun and beautiful book. If you don't believe me, read it for yourself. — Kinky Friedman

The first major debate between racists had invaded the English discourse. This argument about the cause of inferior Blackness - curse or climate, nature or nurture - would rage for decades, and eventually influence settlers to America. Curse theorists were the first known segregationists. They believed that Black people were naturally and permanently inferior, and totally incapable of becoming White. Climate theorists were the first known assimilationists, believing Black people had been nurtured by the hot sun into a temporary inferiority, but were capable of becoming White if they moved to a cooler climate. — Ibram X. Kendi

If she lets us down, if she's weird sometimes - just ignore it, and love her. Just love her. — Joyce Carol Oates