Dr. Robin Markowitz > Dr. Robin Markowitz's Quotes

“In other words, is “critical whiteness studies” the Trojan horse through which the study and perspective of whites will be recentered in studies of race and ethnicity?1”
― Birgit Brander Rasmussen, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

“Intellectuals, writers, and artists of color have long studied, in Langston Hughes’s memorable phrase, “the ways of White folks.”
― Birgit Brander Rasmussen, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
― Wendell Berry

“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
― Wendell Berry

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“Until the day that “the Great Judge proclaims: / ‘The last addict’s died,’254 ” the poem said, “Then—not till then—may you be retired.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“The Mafia paid Harry Anslinger to launch his crusade because they wanted the drug market all to themselves.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“They could not save their friend from the world. She broke.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“What turned ordinary men into screaming dirt at the top of their voices, what made her kind of people harden and say “nigger” when the word had never crossed their lips before?”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“She sat there in front of me and she didn’t see me, she saw white folks.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“I’d be churched to death, bridge-partied to death, called upon to give book reviews at the Amanuensis Club, expected to become a part of the community. It takes a lot of what I don’t have to be a member of this wedding.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Jean Louise, when I said that I wasn’t referring to us.” “Who were you talking about, then?” “I was talking about the—you know, the trashy people. The men who keep Negro women and that kind of thing.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“As I sit here and breathe, I never thought the good God would let me live to see someone walk into the middle of a revolution, pull a lugubrious face, and say, ‘What’s the matter?”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Dr. Finch looked up. “You’re making a bad mistake if you think your daddy’s dedicated to keeping the Negroes in their places.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Shut up, Jean Louise. I’m trying to make you see his motive:”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“He had to know who he’d be fighting if the time ever came to—he had to find out who they were. . . .”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“...the time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise.”
― Harper Lee

“Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”
― Winston Churchill

“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
― Aeschylus

“A man can't ride your back unless it's bent”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“the major legislative achievements of the eugenics movement included a set of involuntary sterilization laws that targeted not immigrants or people of color, but poor "feebleminded" whites.”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

“empirical eugenic research that focused on immigrants, blacks, Indians, Asians, and ethnoracial minorities was almost nonexistent compared to the number of studies of poor rural whites.”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

“how could authorities distinguish between a white person who was merely poor by circumstance and one who was biologically predisposed to poverty, crime, and low social standing?”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

“There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus said no, it wasn’t that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“From this result mental weakness, general incapacity, and unfitness for hard work.”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

“Dramatically and effectively, the Times article established symbolic and social linkages between blacks and poor whites and assigned responsibility for the disease to both.”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

“Where the lubber had been dismissed as a social castoff, the cracker was targeted for arrest, imprisonment, vigilante terror, and death.”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

“poor white trash became the subject of extensive public debates in the antebellum period.”
― Matt Wray, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness