You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong is said to h...ave said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of m...y ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do for the... Negro and the Indian races in their almost helpless condition as we found them after the [Civil] War. The necessity for helping this condition led [General Armstrong, founder of the institution], to undertake this system of education, that the manual dexterity, united with the teaching of life as it was to be ... not alone for Negroes and Indians, but for the white people throughout this land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no doubt that the practice is a means of suppressing and controlling the sexual behaviour of women. Female circumcision i...s a physiological chastity belt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women ...can't have it both ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important ...point, you know, that the tutor should be dignified and at a distance from the pupil, and that the pupil should be as much as possible degraded.... So I sit at the further end of the room; outside the door (which is shut) sits the scout; outside the outer door (also shut) sits the sub-scout: half-way downstairs sits the sub- sub-scout: and down in the yard sits the pupil. The questions are shouted from one to the other, and the answers come back in the same way--it is rather confusing till you are well used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »