DRAGON HEAD

‘That’s why we thugs.  Nobody wants us…and we want nobody.  We rats, dirty, hungry, and looking for something crazy to get into.’

 – Quoted from a conversation within the memoir titled, I Love Yous Are For White People, by Lac Su.

 

MADELINE LEVINE

“Many of the affluent kids I see in my practice have made it clear that they much prefer organized sports activities to spontaneous play.  When asked if they ever go down to the schoolyard for a pick-up game, they look sincerely puzzled, and ask, ‘Who would referee?’  The very notion that that twelve- and thirteen year olds could rely on themselves to organize and set standards for a simple ball game is foreign to many upper middle class kids who have had adults directing their activities for as long as they can remember.”

– Quoted from psychologist Madeline Levine’s book, The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids.  

  

 

KEVIN BALES

“Rice in the Field, Fish in the River, Daughters in the Brothel”

 – Quoted from, Disposable People: New Slavery In The Global Economy, by Kevin Bales.

 

MARION NESTLE

“In 1998, manufacturers introduced slightly more than 11,000 new products.  More than two-thirds of those products are condiments, candy and snacks, baked goods, soft drinks, and dairy products— foods largely allocated to the top of the pyramid“

– Quoted from Marion Nestle’s book, Food Politics: How The Fast Food Industry Inflences Nutrition And Health.

 

SHELDON RAMPTON & JOHN STAUBER

“Condoleezza Rice is a former longtime member of the board of directors of Chevron, which does extensive business with the Saudi’s.  Rice even has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.” 

 – Quoted from the book, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq, written by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

 

RANDALL KENNEDY

“As a linguistic landmark, nigger is being renovated.  Blacks use the term with novel ease to refer to other blacks, even in the presence of those who are not African American.  Whites are increasingly referring to other whites as niggers, and indeed, the term both as an insult and as a sign of affection is being affixed to people of all sorts.”

  – Quoted from Randall Kennedy’s book, Nigger: The Strange Career of A Troublesome Word.

 

HUCK FINN & AUNT SALLY

“We blowed a cylinder head.”

“Good gracious! Anybody hurt?”

“No’m. Killed a nigger.”

“Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt”

  – Quoted from Mark Twain’s novel, Huckleberry Finn:  a conversation between two fictional characters. 

 

SUNNY SINGH

“It may well be argued that anti-American militants mounted on Toyota SUV’s, AK-56s slung over their shoulders, Reeboks laced over their camouflage trousers, passion and determination simmering in their eyes,  and a willingness to take on an irrational, oppressive, imperial state, are more ‘American’ than those who care to fight under the Stars and Stripes”

– Quoted from Singh’s short story, In Praise Of The Delinquent Hero, Or How Hollywood Makes Terrorists, within the collection of works titled, How they See Us Meditations On America, edited by James Atlas.

 

GYORGY DRAGOMAN

“America does not exist.  America is Kansas, Kansas is the land of Oz.  You can’t really go there.  No one can.  it is just a fairy tale.  America is farther than the moon.”

– Quoted from Dragoman’s short story,The Truth About America, within the collection of works titled, How they See Us Meditations On America, edited by James Atlas.