Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations. - Sarah Churchwell
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
- Sarah Churchwell
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby… - Sarah Churchwell
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby…
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies … - Sarah Churchwell
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies …
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. - Sarah Churchwell
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why mu… - Sarah Churchwell
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why mu…
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. - Sarah Churchwell
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. - Sarah Churchwell
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it. - Sarah Churchwell
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. - Sarah Churchwell
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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