Humanity Quote by Marita Golden

“Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.” quote by Marita Golden — Download Open image

“Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.”

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We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love…

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Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

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Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

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Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

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To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

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“My life is too important to share with someone who can't understand it.”

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The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,…

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