- “The New Yorker’s latest “satirical” cover provides an almost too perfect footnote to Nas’ visual and vocal meditations on the implications of Obama’s potential presidency.”
- “Whites make up 66% of the general U.S. population, but only about 40% of large cities. Sooner or later, the pendulum was bound to swing back, and that appears to be starting.”
- “Beijing citizens have been told not to pick their noses, yawn or scratch their heads when talking to foreigners during the Olympics.”
- “A 62-year-old monk from a small friary near Milan has just released his second heavy metal album.”
- “Either way, it doesn’t really matter to me. Life will prolly be harder for a black kid than a white kid in America any way you dice it, regardless of whether that kid’s named Lawrence or LacKquan.”
- “A war bonnet to Cree people or the Prairie Indian people, it’s a sacred thing,” Dorothy said. “It’s used in ceremonies, in peace treaties, used in official addresses. It’s not used as a costume to walk on a stage with a deer-skin bikini.”
- “The thing is, in spite of all the corporate bullshit, Pixar has proven their unfailing loyalty to the story and the characters. Disney, on the other hand, has proven its unfailing loyalty to the *genre*.”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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