"In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many……" — Randall Kennedy
"In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman."
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14 Quotes by Randall Kennedy
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Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative…
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited…
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race,…
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I…
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be…
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to…
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty…
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves…
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for…
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and…
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features…
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many…
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The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the…
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song,…
— Julie Burchill
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
— Alan Alda
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you…
— David Byrne
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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