He was begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair was a rope yarn, every finger a fish-hook, every tooth a marline-sp...ike, and his blood right good Stockholm tar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating "Low Average Abili...ty," reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors preci...sely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touch'd it?... Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever? Or have smelt of the bud of the brier, Or the nard in the fire? Or have tasted the bag of the bee? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Graces, and the rosie-boosom'd Howres, Thither all their bounties bring,... That there eternal Summer dwels, And West winds, with musky wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard, and Cassia's balmy smels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other... now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a peopl...e. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »