One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.
What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.
Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac. "
Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.
The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that. . . at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.
The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall.
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
If anyone's comments affect anyone that much, I think it's more about their own security with themselves, because you can call me whatever, and I'm going to be good.
Most people call me Mercy. I like it
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.
Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.
Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh. . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.