Quotes of the day, May 18
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle
April 29
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
Don Johnson
April 28
Riding a horse is like flying a plane, they're not machines but it's a lot of hours, a lot of time to go into building the relationship.
Ben Maher
April 27
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
Maya Angelou
April 26
I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
Esmeralda Santiago
April 25
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.
David Roediger
