He was breathtaking. There was simply no other way to describe him. Her eyes started with his long, black hair before slowly perusing every inch of him. He was dressed in a white shirt and black vest with pants that hugged every inch of his muscular ...
A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains...
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you gr...
Harry: [in reference to Sirius Black on the front cover of the Daily Prophet] Who is that? That man? Stan Shunpike: Who is that?... Who is... THAT is Sirius Black that is! Don't tell me you've never been hearing of Sirius Black? Harry: [Harry shakes ...
Nick: Open your gift. Olive: You open it, can't you see I'm dressing? Nick: Here. Olive: What is it? Nick: Pearls. What the hell do you think they are? Olive: Pearls are white. Nick: These are black pearls. Olive: Oh, don't give me that. I never hear...
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the system:
He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'
It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;
