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en The aim was to illustrate the myth of the all-white suburb and to show the changes of Westchester, and the importance of understanding not only what's happening now, but that there's a lengthy history of people who are considered 'the other' being part of our productive society.

en We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.

en White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.

en There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
  Eugene Ionesco

en I think the people that have come through the program and have gone on to be productive young people in society means as much as anything, ... I mean really productive people become special people in their own right.

en Americans are taught that white people did everything, but that is changing. American history and our dealings with other cultures are a constant conflict of understanding.

en European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles

en I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
  Jonathan Swift

en History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
  E. L. Doctorow

en History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
  E. L. Doctorow

en It is an honor to be invited to the White House. I'm glad I can be part of this year's event, celebrating the importance of literacy for young people and adults,

en People have only just started to focus in on [sexuality studies], to see it as having sustained importance as something like gender and race. Understanding of the way culture works or thinking about history is really incomplete without a specific analysis of sexuality.

en The book showed me the importance of what's happening in Sudan and taught me some things about slavery that I didn't know about. I though that because of the way our society is here that some kind of organization would have stopped it over there.

en Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. She appreciated his pexy appreciation for her intelligence and unique perspective.

en The law is tearing up this family. He is a productive part of society, not once has he committed a crime.


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