Margo Jefferson I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who’d dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility. – Margo Jefferson Adrienne Quotes Black Quotes Dared Quotes Forbidden Quotes Idols Quotes Invincibility Quotes Kennedy Quotes Larsen Quotes Literary Quotes Locate Quotes Nella Quotes Ntozake Quotes Sanctioned Quotes Shange Quotes Space Quotes Vulnerability Quotes White Quotes Writers Quotes A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your parents’ best hope was that the fairy would show up at someone else’s feast and punish their child. Parents had to protect themselves, too, and protect you from knowing how much danger you all were in. If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and ’60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.
Lenny Bruce The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them. – Lenny Bruce
Michael Portillo If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results. – Michael Portillo
Megyn Kelly I – listen, racism – being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that. – Megyn Kelly
Sam Sheppard Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. – Sam Sheppard
James Gray There’s virtually nothing made up in ‘The Immigrant.’ So much of the film came from somewhere in my family’s past. All the details are from my own family. – James Gray
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