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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'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
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Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
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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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A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
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When you do your part, life just unfolds in ways that are so much better than you would have dreamed up on your own.
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I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine
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I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.
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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.
