Richard Wright On The Black Experience In America

President Donald J. Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) right wing followers should seriously ponder the following words whenever they get the urge to disparage and demonize programs that encourage DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion):

"If we [blacks] had been allowed to participate in the vital processes of America's national growth, what would have been the texture of our lives, the pattern of our traditions, the routine of our customs, the state of our arts, the code of our laws, the function of our government? Whatever others may say, we black folk say that America would have been stronger and greater!" --Richard Wright (1908-1960), from his book, 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States (Viking Press, 1941).

Broadcast Journalist Edward R. Murrow On Heretics

"I've always been on the side of the heretics against those who burned them, because the heretics so often proved to be right. Dead--but right!"--Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), CBS broadcast journalist.

A Favorite Movie Line

One of my favorite movie lines is from The Naked City (1948): Ted de Corsia as the killer Willy Garzah flees the NYPD by climbing up the Williamsburg Bridge. His pursuer Barry Fitzgerald as the homicide detective Lieutenant Dan Muldoon calls up to him: "All right, Garzah, we give you a hundred percent for acrobatics." I love it. A policeman expressing a humorous thought while chasing a very dangerous criminal!