The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
It's great to be Black in Hollywood. When a Black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's Black.
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible—as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
