#move

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#around #best #common #def #hiphop

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#cat #cats #come #different #different types

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#forward #means #move #must #participation

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side. (Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.) Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#krapp #life #love #movement #play

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#bible #calls #century #into #move

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along. ↗

— Fred Ward

#beginning #changed #changes #cop #in the beginning

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ↗

— George Bancroft

#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#doubt #fool #mouth #open #remain

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#better #did #disappointed #experience #fails