Black Messiah Quotes

#1. There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

J. Edgar Hoover

#2. The event is placed at such a distance, and contained, that these images move beyond the context in which they were made, the geographic setting, and so on, and engage the viewer in a one-to-one relationship solely through their physical presence.

Jean-Marc Bustamante

#3. It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Ralph Linton

#4. The academic is sharing in the bourgeois' loot, in a hundred little ways. And the peasant understands necessity as something that transcends mortality. To be in community with that peasant, the Chapel Hill academic will have to commit class suicide.

Stan Goff

#5. I know you did what you could to help pappa."
"Kid," I brushed his hand off my shoulder. "Your father did a stupid thing and paid the price for it. Now fuck off.

Khalia Hades

#6. There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Lupe Fiasco

#7. It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

Jonathan Turley

#8. It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

Jacquelyn Frank

#9. Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Augustus William Hare

#10. It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Trying to rationalize with the irrational is a total waste of time.

Adra Young

#12. When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.

Louise Cowan

#13. You know what it is about someone that makes them a friend? A friend doesn't just say things; a friend does.

Bob Goff