The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.
Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
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