Label Rising Force

Famous quotes containing the words label, rising and/or force:

“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

“You’ve watched me all your life,
I’ve clothed your wife,
put your two sons through college.
What good has it done?
Sun keeps rising every morning.”
—Ray Durem (1915–1963)

“An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality—same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)