David Roediger Quotes
In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.
David Roediger
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
Rachel Cusk
Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.
Deion Sanders
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
Christopher Meloni
There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.
Mary Dillon
My role in 'Hero' is not a lengthy one but a powerful one. It was a nice opportunity, and I grabbed it.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.
Sarah Drew
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.
Colm Toibin
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.
Camille Saint-Saens
In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.
David Roediger
