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)

    “I see before me now a traveling army halting,
    Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
    Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)