Albert Memmi Quotes

Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

Albert Memmi

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Music
  • Small

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mankind
  • Quiet
  • Stay

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Why are ... female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Why
  • High

• To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Dream
  • Design

• I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Opportunity

• 'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.

  

  Leslie Jamison

• I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Like
  • Ambition
  • Anxiety

• In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lots of consternation and nervousness and anger. Famously, piñata makers started making piñatas of Donald Trump, even before he won the Republican nomination. There was this sense that, here's a person who's rising in the polls because he's insulting us, because he's created this scapegoated image of us as the people responsible for the decline of the United States.

  

  Hector Tobar
  • Anger
  • Nervousness
  • Latino community

• Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter how progressive. If you cut too far into that progressive, if you do something that's too radical, white racism will emerge.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.

  

  John Ridley
  • Why
  • America
  • Immigration

• It could just be a shift on the axis.

  

  Bill Cassidy
  • Shift
  • Axis

• Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

  

  Albert Memmi
  • Racism
  • Expression
  • Colonialist