14 Theodore Chickering Williams Quotes

Theodore Chickering Williams quotes

1. Life is a voyage. The winds of life come strong From every point; yet each will speed thy course along, If thou with steady hand when tempests blow Canst keep thy course aright and never once let go.

2. Death is an angel with two faces: To us he turns A face of terror, blighting all things fair; The other burns With glory of the stars, and love is there.

1. I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way.

2. The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.

3. I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

4. If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

5. Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.

6. I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led to extraordinary cultural contributions that I'm very proud of, but it's not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.

7. The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest, and the exchange - in food, fashion and design - is ongoing. After all, these are two countries where style is considered essential to life.

8. White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do have race. They need to understand how their race has been constructed as artificially as everybody else's.

9. Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

10. I had the benefit, I'll say it, of coming up behind my brother and seeing what he went through and just simply trying do the opposite oftentimes.

11. It is mind-blowing to pause and think that a film as forward-facing and potent as 'Do the Right Thing' was released the same year as 'Driving Ms. Daisy.'

12. I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.