I have more in common with a Mexican man than with a white woman.... This opinion ... chagrins women who sincerely believe our fem...ale physiology unequivocally binds all women throughout the world, despite the compounded social prejudices that daily affect us all in different ways. Although women everywhere experience life differently from men everywhere, white women are members of a race that has proclaimed itself globally superior for hundreds of years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay, I'm going to get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that ph...one, you know what's going to happen to you? Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What? Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and w...hat we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling... one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now Air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd Bat, With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern Wing,... Or where the Beetle winds His small but sullen Horn,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we imagine what it is like to be a languageless creature, we start, naturally, from our own experience, and most of what then... springs to mind has to be adjusted (mainly downward). The sort of consciousness such animals enjoy is dramatically truncated, compared to ours. A bat, for instance, not only can't wonder whether it's Friday; it can't even wonder whether it's a bat; there is no role for wondering to play in its cognitive structure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chance: That tune, they been playin' it all day. What is it? Dude: Oh, it's some Mexican piece. I heard it farther south....<...br />Colorado: Well, they call it "The Deguello," the cutthroat song. The Mexicans played it for those Texas boys when they had them bottled up in the Alamo. Played it day and night 'til it was all over. Now do you know what he means by it? Chance: No quarter, no mercy for the loser.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the... State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our party to the diplomatic corps was all that could be desired.... The exclusion of wine from the list of refreshments has turned... out exceedingly well. There is a good deal of dissipation here. At the receptions of the British Minister, and at that of the Mexican Minister, disgraceful things were done by young men made reckless by too much wine. Hence the necessity for our course is obvious, and is commended in unexpected quarters. Many of the foreign gentlemen speak of it with approval. We shall stick to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »