The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the mor...e it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,... who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But now Miss America, World's champion woman, you take your promenading self down into the cobalt blue waters of the Caribbean and... see what happens. You meet a lot of darkish men who make vociferous love to you, but otherwise pay you no mid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal ...is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly we expect to maintain both a career and a family, but we expect excellence in one role will come at some cost to the oth...er. Certainly we would like to think we're entitled to . . . Caribbean vacations, but we're chastened by our minimal savings and the specter of our husbands losing their jobs. Certainly we want issues such as child care and family leave to be perceived as problems affecting all of us, not just women--but we recognize, too, that we must then all bear the burden of paying for them and making them work for the businesses upon which our economic survival is based.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and b...ehave like African Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The majority of Black Americans are unaware of the complexity of the meaning of Israel to American Jews. But, ironically, Afro-Zio...nists have as an intense an emotional identification with Africa and with the Third World as American Jews have with Israel. Doubly ironic, this same intensity of identification with a "Motherland" seems rooted in the mythologies common to both groups. In this special sense--in the spiritual sense implied by "Zion" and "Diaspora" and "Promised Land"MBlack Americans are America's Jews. But given the isolation of Black Americans from any meaningful association with Africa, extensions of the mythology would be futile. We have no distant homeland preparing an ingathering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For Afro-Americans, it could be argued that every year they've spent in this country since they arrived in chains to perform force...d labor has been 1984.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »