In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like the skinny or fat kids left over after the team captains chose sides. You take the rest - my cue to wander away to the sidelines, to wander away.
Richard Rodriguez - Brown: The Last Discovery of America, 2003
When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
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When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains.
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was "The Twist".
Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can and memories of the 60s to accept the things I can't.
The 60s were wild and colorful! Flower power, miniskirts, and Beatles mania were everywhere. People danced to groovy tunes and protested for peace. But the hairstyles were sometimes a bit strange – afro, beehive, and muttonchops. Ah, the 60s were just one big trip!
In those days of the sixties, when the world seemed carefree, rebellious spirits blossomed like flowers in a spring garden. The youth danced wildly to the sounds of music emanating from dusty record players. Peace and freedom became the mantra of a generation thirsting for change. The Sixties, an era of hope and transformation.
The 60s, a decade of glory and fame,
Where freedom and peace danced in their game.
The youth united, rebellious and strong,
An era of music and love, where they belong.
The hippies blossomed, with flowers in their hair,
Dreaming of peace, always and everywhere.
The Vietnam War took many lives away,
But resistance grew stronger, day by day.
Where freedom and peace danced in their game.
The youth united, rebellious and strong,
An era of music and love, where they belong.
The hippies blossomed, with flowers in their hair,
Dreaming of peace, always and everywhere.
The Vietnam War took many lives away,
But resistance grew stronger, day by day.
Nothing lasts forever. So live it up, drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the drama, take chances and never have regrets because at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted.
To all the girls that think you’re ugly because you are not a size 0, you’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Seventeen years ago there appeared, without any fanfare, a book called The Hobbit, which, in my opinion, is one of the best children's stories of this century.
W. H. Auden - The New York Times Book Review, 1954
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman's best bet when it's hot and sticky.
The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.
But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.
Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
I love Sacramento. I consider this home.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Science grows like a weed every year.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
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Marilyn Monroe
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