“Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the “national interest” and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework—so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark,” Baldwin said in an interview in 1961. “Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it’s true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
“It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
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