Quote of the Day: Lew Rockwell

“The lack of criticism of the Fed tells you all you need to know. It is the one sacrosanct institution because it is the most necessary institution to modern statecraft. Without it, we wouldn’t fund both welfare and warfare. We wouldn’t dream of a world empire and debate policy the way we debate art, as [...]

A Few Words From Tavis

The Associated Press recently held an interview with Mr. Smiley. “There is no such thing in America as race transcendence, and Obama’s going to find that out real soon.” “There’s no such thing as ‘post-racial’ in America, because if you push the envelope too far, you’re going to hear about it.”
“Just because Barack [...]

Quote of the Day: Luke

“I waited 47 years to find a special woman and have found that in Kristin. I never knew that I could feel love on another level like this until I met her, and I am now honored to call her my wife.” - Luke
Source: Bossip

Quote of the Day: Mao Tse Dung

“Imperialism will never abandon its intention to destroy us.”
-Mao Tse Dung

Friday Flashback (Part I)

From 25th Hour.

Quote Of The Day

“I was looking for changes and improvements, and I didn’t see any,” McGruder said on the DVD. “I didn’t see them. So I said, OK, it’s fair game. It’s hard not to address it. It really was an important part of the strip.”
Barnes added: “You expect white television to present black people in a particular [...]

“Things Fall Apart”: 50 Year Anniversary

Well, I can guess. I think what it is — I suspect, from some of the things readers from abroad say to me, that they find something in this book which resonates with their own history, people in different places.
An example is a school, a class in a women’s college in Korea. This whole class [...]

Atrocious Quote of the Day

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”
This was in response to questions on whether she should drop out of the race.

Quote of the Day

We’re the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along.  The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable.  Everybody’s afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.
Gore Vidal

Quote of the Day

Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.
People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a [...]