C. L. R. James Quotes

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

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Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

If your franchise has been around for awhile you have to find ways to keep it fresh.

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

Marketing has taken such a complete shift, thanks to the internet.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.

He is not dead, he is just - away.

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.

Better moods = better performance.

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead.

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.