The AIDS plague has so fed into America's current need to disown the sexual revolution that it has been hard to determine whether ...the new disease is just a convenient excuse or truly a new Black Death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The words "house" and "home" are a shorthand for two ways of thinking about the family, but it needs to be pointed out that they d...id not go through history as a pair. "House" is almost a dead word, used today only to refer to things grand and historical. People in the past did not use "home" in the emotionally loaded way we do. The Romance languages do not even have an equivalent word for "home" and have to call other words into service for expressing the modern concept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost... no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every time I embrace a black woman I'm embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I'm hugging freedom. ...The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other th...ing is black except a coffin--a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
when it comes to my death let it be slow, let it be pantomime, this last peep show,... so that I may squat at the edge trying on my black necessary trousseau.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the small townsmen of death, A man and a woman, like two leaves... That keep clinging to a tree, Before winter freezes and grows black....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.... ... Stars of Death stood over us, and innocent Russia squirmed under the bloody boots, under the wheels of black Marias.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »