Marable Quotes

#1. The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Manning Marable

#2. The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

Manning Marable

#3. I've been asked to endorse lots of different pieces of equipment. It's not necessarily that it's an awful thing to be asked to endorse something, because it's inherently a compliment to your skills, your abilities, on a level. But sometimes it's just not the right fit.

Wylie Dufresne

#4. I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

Manning Marable

#5. By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

Manning Marable

#6. The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

Eric Schmidt

#7. My health is important to me. I run with my dog, twice or three times a week.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#8. I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Jimmy Cliff

#9. To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215).

Manning Marable

#10. The truth is straight ahead, so don't burn yourself instead.

Jimi Hendrix

#11. The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

David O. McKay

#12. He would lose every game. And he still insisted on playing. I wondered at the futility of it. If it is the definition of insanity to repeat the same process and expect a different outcome, most of humanity must be insane.

Amie Kaufman

#13. The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Manning Marable

#14. Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted."

Manning Marable

#15. At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Manning Marable