#al

So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe. ↗

— Tim Wise

#national-myths #racism #africa

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre. ↗

— Olivier Weber

#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#morality #truth #fashion

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#colonial-society #discrimination #inequality #africa

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no. ↗

— Dambisa Moyo

#africa

These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#sex-appeal #fashion

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #women #louisa-may-alcott

And you, Percy, are my favorite son. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #poseidon #sibling-rivalry #battle

I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb. ↗

— John Green

#talking #conversation

I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire. Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#seth #dance