Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
I am passionately invested in the survival of Israel and everything Israel represents. But I am extremely critical of much of its policy. I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn't, it will end Israel. I'm not in favor of settlements.
When I make a film about a physically challenged person, I come away with so much. I learn to value what I have. My survival instinct sharpened after 'Black' and 'Guzaarish.'
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
