the above requires careful consideration and contemplation...
I like it... I hope I'm liking what is there and not what I imagine is there...

here's one for you HB...

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision".

~ The Mock Turtle: Alice in Wonderland

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Originally posted by FireFly:
the above requires careful consideration and contemplation...
I like it... I hope I'm liking what is there and not what I imagine is there...

What are you imagining? It says what it says.

"Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.""--Muhammad Ali

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Originally posted by Santana St. Cloud:
so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

And that's still true ...

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
~ James Baldwin

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~ Terry Josephson

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
~ George Sand

'kyereme woadamfo na menkyere wo wosuban' (Akan)
'Show me your friend and I will show you your character'

'Tears are best dried with your own hand' ~ anon

"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!"--James Brown, The Payback

"Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains"~ Paulo Coelho

“I’m a drag queen, darling…not an extremist…and I still say if Pakistanis had more self-respect, we’d be even more anti-American.”--Ali Saleem (a.k.a. talk show diva Begum Nawazish Ali)

All the human soul really wants to do is to gain a bit each day, it doesn't want to lose a bit each day.
~ Lee Stringer

i wish we could change everything n get treated equally wit the whits but............ that will never happen
~ koori girl (2005)

"I say, next time you gonna call a darkie a nigger, call that coon a jungle bunny instead!"--Uncle Ruckus, The Boondocks (Season 2, Ep. 11)



Crazy knee grow.

"[W]hen I was asked by a academic journal to say if I were to hold the power for one day as president [of the United States]...and I would have kind of absolute power to introduce a law, what law that would have been? My immediate answer was not as some humanist suggested, since United States at least thinks they are a global empire, so let every adult in the world be allowed to vote; my advice would be the opposite one: let’s everybody in the world, except US citizens, be allowed to vote and elect the American government. I think it would have been much better for you, even, because we all outside the United States would project our desires into how you should be."--Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist.

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Originally posted by Santana St. Cloud:
"...let’s everybody in the world, except US citizens, be allowed to vote and elect the American government.

interesting idea

'When I was a boy, the only time that I would see a black man on TV was when my father walked over to turn the set on and I caught sight of his reflection.'
~ Ignatious Sancho

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Originally posted by FireFly:

quote:

Originally posted by Santana St. Cloud:
"...let’s everybody in the world, except US citizens, be allowed to vote and elect the American government.

interesting idea

Yeah. Imagine that. It's an intriguing thought, though.

'It may sound corny to say that in order to make a difference we have to care, but it has been duly demonstrated that if we don't care, nothing we try will quite work.' ~ Lee Stringer