I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag
As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. – Hilary Rosen
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff… – James Ellroy
