Quotes about brown page 4
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Source: National Business Review, 17/2/86.
“Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
From Draft of XXX Cantos (1933), No.2
Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) Canadian writer
"October" (sonnet) http://www.sonnets.org/shermanf.htm
“I sure do like the color brown. And pink. Pink and brown. If I had to choose, pink would lose.”
Vincent Gallo (1961) American film director, writer, model, actor and musician
AOL Interview
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) Italian artist
Quote from the first lines in De Cirico's essay 'Painting', 1938; from http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/wp-content/uploads/211_Painting_1938_Metaphysical_Art.pdf 'Painting', 1938 - G. de Chirico, presentation to the catalogue of his solo exhibition Mostra personale del pittore Giorgio de Chirico, Galleria Rotta, Genoa, May 1938], p. 211
1920s and later
“Can we see thee, and not remember
Thy sun-brown cheek and hair sun-golden,
O sweet September?”
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) English poet and critic
The Golden Land
Context: Kiss and cling to them, kiss and leave them,
Bright and beguiling:—
Bright and beguiling, as She who glances
Along the shore and the meadows along,
And sings for heart's delight, and dances
Crowned with apples, and ruddy, and strong:—
Can we see thee, and not remember
Thy sun-brown cheek and hair sun-golden,
O sweet September?
Ruth Deech (1943) British academic, lawyer and bioethicist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tdxpr BBC Radio 4, Any Questions?, 20 Aug 2010
Appearance on BBC Radio's Any Questions?
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
Quoted on Yahoo News!, "First lady tells Kansas students to fight bias" (16 May 2014) http://news.yahoo.com/first-lady-tells-kansas-students-fight-bias-021747701.html <br class="br">2010s
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
Death of the Flowers http://www.bartleby.com/248/85.html (1832), st. 1
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Joseph Lowery (1921) American activist
Benediction at inauguration of US president Barack Obama, January 20, 2009, Washington DC.
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "All-Star Case of Roberto Clemente"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1970</big>
David Brooks (1961) American journalist, commentator and editor
As quoted in "Shields and Brooks on Trump's 's***hole' comments, 'Fire and Fury' fallout" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-trumps-shole-comments-fire-and-fury-fallout#transcript (14 January 2018), PBS Newshour <br class="br">2010s
Adrian Henri (1932–2000) British poet
"Mrs Albion You've Got a Lovely Daughter", from The Mersey Sound (1967).
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
Richard Eugene Burton, Memorial Day, And Other Poems (1897), 'So Much to Learn', p. 8
Misattributed
Du Fu (712–770) Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
"To My Retired Friend Wei" (Chinese: 贈衛八處士) in: University of Virginia's 300 Tang Poems http://etext.virginia.edu/chinese/frame.htm at etext.virginia.edu
Robert Louis Stevenson book Memories and Portraits
Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).
“Meyer, Stephenie. (2008). Breaking Dawn. Park Avenue, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 754..”
Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author
References
Variant: Meyer, Stephenie. (2008). The Host. Park Avenue, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 619.
“Whenever I hear of culture … I release the safety catch of my Browning!”
Hanns Johst (1890–1978) German general
Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!
Schlageter
Cy Twombly (1928–2011) American painter
Source: 2000 - 2011, Cy Twombly, 2000', by David Sylvester (June 2000), pp. 174-175
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975) writer, journalist, and educator
Source: The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir (2008), p. 41.
Robert Charles Wilson book Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 332
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As prime minister, Warrenton, 24 July 1982, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 23
Glenn Jacobs (1967) American professional wrestler and actor
9:41 P</small>.<small>M.
Interviewed on The Independents (2014)
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (1961) British philosopher
Interview with Inside Politics, 4 February 2015 https://www.holyrood.com/articles/inside-politics/architect-blue-labour-interview-lord-glasman
John Anderson (Australian politician) (1956) Australian politician, 11th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10782838%255E1702,00.html
“The world around me is a tuxedo, and I'm a pair of brown shoes.”
Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Remarks after Columbia space shuttle disaster (February 2003)
Frank Rutter (1876–1937) British art critic
Rutter, Frank. Art in My Time, p. 111. Rich & Cowan, London, 1933.
Rutter satirising the reaction of fans of impressionist art on seeing Cézanne's work in London in 1905.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 15.
Jeff Morrow (1907–1993) American actor and World War II veteran
I thought I was going over for real. <br class="br"> Psychotronic Video interview http://www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2013/08/the-jeff-morrow-interview-part-4.html (1993)
Michael Bond (1926–2017) English author, creator of Paddington the Bear
Page 10.
A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
Eric Holder (1951) 82nd Attorney General of the United States
2010s, Update on Investigations in Ferguson (2015)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) British poet
Ballad; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Adam Goldstein (1973–2009) American DJ
LA Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/08/dj-am-in-the-la-times-and-a-collection-of-video-performances.html
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
"If it’s just paper, why did you wrap it?"
The Bronze Horseman (2001)
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2010s, Interview with Eric Benson (2012)
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Source: "Let the Record Speak" 1939, p. 295 (newspaper column: “Pius XII—the former Diplomat,” March, 6, 1939)
Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry
Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).
Vincent Gallo (1961) American film director, writer, model, actor and musician
Film Freak Central Interview
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Brown Eyed Girl
Song lyrics, Blowin' Your Mind! (1967)
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
On her siblings, The David Letterman Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzX8Zv_dosM (17 March 2004) <br class="br">1996–2005
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist
quote about her way of 'abstraction'
1960s, Interview with Barbara Rose', Archives - American Art, 1968
Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966) American businessman
Source: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 20 (in 1964 edition)
Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician
Same Old Man <br class="br"> Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
To Christopher Morley, quoted in Saturday Review Treasury (1957)
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)
Context: To many persons around him, he appears too much the academic. There may be some things about him that recall his beginnings—his shabby clothes; his persistent poverty; or his dark skin (in those cases when it symbolizes his parents’ disadvantaged condition)—but they only make clear how far he has moved from his past. He has used education to remake himself. They expect—they want—a student less changed by his schooling. If the scholarship boy, from a past so distant from the classroom, could remain in some basic way unchanged, he would be able to prove that it is possible for anyone to become educated without basically changing from the person one was. The scholarship boy does not straddle, cannot reconcile, the two great opposing cultures of his life. His success is unromantic and plain. He sits in the classroom and offers those sitting beside him no calming reassurance about their own lives. He sits in the seminar room—a man with brown skin, the son of working-class Mexican immigrant parents.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
This I Believe (1952)
Context: I believe in — I am proud to belong to — the United States. Despite shortcomings, from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.
And finally, I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown — in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability … and goodness …. of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth — but that we will always make it … survive … endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure — will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage — and his noble essential decency.
This I believe with all my heart.
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
"Niagara Movement Speech" (1905) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/niagara-movement-speech/ <!--originally a portion of this was cited here to an Address to the Nation speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (16 August 1906); published in the New York Times on (20 August 1906) — but that does not correspond with the info at the link. --> <br class="br">Context: The school system in the country districts of the South is a disgrace and in few towns and cities are Negro schools what they ought to be. We want the national government to step in and wipe out illiteracy in the South. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.<br>And when we call for education we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal. We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire.<br>These are some of the chief things which we want. How shall we get them? By voting where we may vote, by persistent, unceasing agitation; by hammering at the truth, by sacrifice and work.<br>We do not believe in violence, neither in the despised violence of the raid nor the lauded violence of the soldier, nor the barbarous violence of the mob, but we do believe in John Brown, in that incarnate spirit of justice, that hatred of a lie, that willingness to sacrifice money, reputation, and life itself on the altar of right. And here on the scene of John Brown’s martyrdom we reconsecrate ourselves, our honor, our property to the final emancipation of the race which John Brown died to make free.<br>Our enemies, triumphant for the present, are fighting the stars in their courses. Justice and humanity must prevail.
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Tinselworm (2008)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Letter to Harriet Tubman (29 August 1868), as quoted in Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, p. 135
1860s
Context: Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day — you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt " God bless you " has been your only reward. The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown — of sacred memory — I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony to your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy.
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
TIME interview (1977)
Context: Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives a sense that the family cares about itself and is proud of itself. And there is the assumption that you, the family member, are obligated to reflect this pride and, if possible, add to it.
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Context: A boy named Buddy came up beside me in the schoolyard. I don't remember what passed as prologue, but I do not forget what Buddy divulged to me: If you're white, you're all right; If you're brown, stick around; If you're black, stand back.
It was as though Buddy had taken me to a mountaintop and shown me the way things lay in the city below.
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
1990s, The Party of Lincoln vs. The Party of Bureaucrats (1996)
Context: The civil rights establishment, led by the NAACP, fought the good fight that led to the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. They fought that fight under the banner of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which reflected the equality proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. The classic statement of this principle is to be found in Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous 1896 decision that enshrined "separate but equal" into constitutional law for more than half a century, "In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior dominant ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved".
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Also quoted in Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches (2003), edited by Kader Asmal & David Chidester. Jonathan Ball, p. 332
1990s, Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference (1992)
Context: Yes! We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! Those who dare to cast out from the human family people of a darker hue with their racism! Those who exclude from the sight of God's grace, people who profess another faith with their religious intolerance! Those who wish to keep their fellow countrymen away from God's bounty with forced removals! Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid.
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Talk at UC Berkeley on the massacres in Indonesia and East Timor, 1982; Republished at " Program Information: Chomsky on Indonesia and E. Timor, 1982 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=11140" at radio4all.net, accessed May 23, 2014. <br class="br">Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s <br class="br">Context: There are significant strategic interests [in Oceania], and there's a lot of stuff going on that's important. Not just the United States. For example, France is doing some really vicious things there, in fact they're just wiping out islands because they want them for nuclear tests. And when the socialist government in France is asked, "Why to do this?", they say, "Well look, we have to have nuclear tests." Well, if you have to have nuclear tests, why not have them in southern France? [audience laughter] Why have them in some island in the Pacific? Well, the answer to that is clear, after all they're just a bunch of little brown people or something. But you can't say that exactly, especially if you're a socialist, so something else is said.
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet
On his childhood inspiration to become a poet, and later studies and efforts to produce poetry.
The Paris Review interview (1963)
Context: I think Ushant describes it pretty well, with that epigraph from Tom Brown’s School Days: “I’m the poet of White Horse Vale, sir, with Liberal notions under my cap!” For some reason those lines stuck in my head, and I’ve never forgotten them. This image became something I had to be. … I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort — I mean I didn’t give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form — all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I’ve always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do. And to study all the vowel effects and all the consonant effects and the variation in vowel sounds.
James W. Loewen book Lies My Teacher Told Me
As quoted in Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong https://books.google.com/books?id=5m2_xeJ4VdwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=lies+my+teacher+told+me&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dV39VNWyPMmWgwTN14JQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=maltreated&f=false (2008), p. 193 <br class="br">2000s, 2007, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2007) <br class="br">Context: Ideas made the opposite impact in the Confederacy. Ideological contradictions afflicted the slave system even before the war began. John Brown knew the masters secretly feared their slaves might revolt, even as they assured abolitionists that slaves really liked slavery. One reason his Harpers Ferry raid prompted such an outcry in the South was that slave owners feared their slaves might join him. Yet their condemnations of Brown and the 'Black Republicans' who financed him did not persuade Northern moderates but only pushed them toward the abolitionist camp. After all, if Brown was truly dangerous, as slave owners claimed, then slavery was truly unjust. Happy slaves would never revolt... White Southerners founded the Confederacy on the ideology of white supremacy. Confederate soldiers on their way to Antietam and Gettysburg, their two main forays into Union states, put this ideology into practice: they seized scores of free black people in Maryland and Pennsylvania and sold them south into slavery. Confederates maltreated black Union troops when they captured them.
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Dandelion Mind (2010)
Lucy Parsons (1853–1942) American communist anarchist labor organizer
"Southern Lynching" (April 1892)
David Chariandy (1969) Canadian writer
On the inspiration for his novel Brother in “Interviews: David Chariandy” https://bookpage.com/interviews/22971-david-chariandy-fiction#.XfgMUulKjcs in BookPage (2018 Aug 1)
Jaquira Díaz Puerto Rican writer
On the lessons her “home girls” taught her in “‘Either Hyper-Visible or Invisible’: An Interview with Jaquira Díaz” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/either-hyper-visible-or-invisible-an-interview-with-jaquira-diaz/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2019 Oct 29)
Raúl Castillo (1977) American actor, writer
On his role in the film We the Animals in “After ‘Looking’ and ‘We the Animals,’ Raul Castillo Is Ready to Be a Movie Star” https://www.indiewire.com/2019/01/raul-castillo-interview-we-the-animals-looking-1202029967/ in IndieWire (2019 Jan 2)
Pete Buttigieg (1982) American politician
16 June 2015
South Bend mayor: Why coming out matters
South Bend Tribune
https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/south-bend-mayor-why-coming-out-matters/article_4dce0d12-1415-11e5-83c0-739eebd623ee.html
2015
W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk
for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born
Bowe Bergdahl (1986) American soldier captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap
Last e-mail to parents (2009)
Oscar Zeta Acosta book Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Source: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 78.