Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes
Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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New is easy. Right is hard.
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My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.
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I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.
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I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete - it made it all make sense.
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We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.
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St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'
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I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.
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When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, 'Well, okay. You can try.'
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Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.
