Black Like Me Sparknotes Quotes

#1. There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

Spike Lee

#2. I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.

Anna Wintour

#3. We go in withering July
To ply the hard incessant hoe;
Panting beneath the brazen sky
We sweat and grumble, but we go.

Ruth Pitter

#4. I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Alison Jackson

#5. We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

Sam Kean

#6. To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Vaclav Havel

#7. If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.

Frederick Lenz

#8. If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Saint Basil