Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average Am...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk trad...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result, many parents, families, and caregivers are at a loss and feel defeated by the majority of Americans who strive to ma...

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're th...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all... ...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates... ...43.6% of Amer...

The Luck Factor

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borr...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom o...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: 'To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, i...

The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.' But the serious critique of Zuma is not about who is a barbarian and who is civilised. ...

Mark Gevisser

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe. In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elec...

Mark Gevisser

I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall to inform me after a career of overweening entitlement that there is 'a d...

Christopher Hitchens

At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but its true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is ...

Jon Rappoport interview with ex-vaccine Researcher

Louis Winthorpe III: Nenge? Nenge Mboko? It is me, Lionel Joseph! Billy Ray Valentine: Lionel! From the African Education Conference! Louis Winthorpe III: Yah, mon, I was Director of Cultural Activities at the Haile Selassie Pavilion. Billy Ray Valen...

Trading Places

The doctor in Murare is old - old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to. There aren´t enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become d...

Alexandra Fuller

Daughter A sprinkle of sparkle, A dazzle of sweet, A flutter of cute, From your head to your feet.

Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The Closing of the American Mind

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil