Monday, June 20, 2005
“There is master-morality and slave-morality.”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), German philosopher, critic and poet: “Beyond Good and Evil”, 1886.
“There’re two people in the world who are not likeable: a master and a slave.”
- Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), American poet: in conversation with James Baldwin, London, November 4, 1971, published in “A Dialogue”, 1973.
“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”
- James Baldwin (1924 – 1987), American author: ‘Color’, first published in “Esquire” (New York), December 1962, reprinted in “The Price of the Ticket”, 1985.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900), German philosopher, critic and poet: “Beyond Good and Evil”, 1886.
“There’re two people in the world who are not likeable: a master and a slave.”
- Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), American poet: in conversation with James Baldwin, London, November 4, 1971, published in “A Dialogue”, 1973.
“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”
- James Baldwin (1924 – 1987), American author: ‘Color’, first published in “Esquire” (New York), December 1962, reprinted in “The Price of the Ticket”, 1985.
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