The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

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• Roland Barthes:

  To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is

• Roland Barthes:

  Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it

• Roland Barthes:

  Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we

• Roland Barthes:

  The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his

• Henry Louis Gates:

  Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but t

• Henry Louis Gates:

  In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our e

• Henry Louis Gates:

  The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

• Henry Louis Gates:

  Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

• Henry Louis Gates:

  You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

• Henry Louis Gates:

  One must learn how to be black in America.