Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will not be going. "I want to work with everyone," he says. "I respect the Nation of Islam, but they just want to divide. There are a lot of black men without access to the good things in life, watching their kids do without, and facing a lot of anger. It's a cycle of rage, and talking about the years of captivity [as he feels the Nation does] just makes more fire for the rage. It's like pumping poison into people...
...does not shrink from the realization that the surest path toward self-discovery is self-disclosure. In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, he was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened to choke off his life by causing a heart attack. This evocative book is the result...
...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked heart) to outer catastrophes. I sailed off to Bosnia and Hiroshima--big objective correlatives." Spasms of bloodthirsty fury, he observes, can block up the collective heart of entire ethnic groups, who cannot...
...another black person we perceive as being mistreated by whites because it has happened to so many of us," says Darlene Powell Hopson, a black clinical psychologist. Says political scientist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal: "I hear a lot of anger from even middle-class and professional blacks about this. They believe that the police, the prosecutors, the whole criminal justice system are out to tear down black men, especially successful black...
...poor as a church mouse and had to pose in borrowed clothes; the portrait was paid for by his friend John Hancock (he of the signature). It is the only Copley painting to show a political figure engaged in conflict. Tight-lipped, all Calvinist fervor and republican anger, Adams points with one rigid finger at the royal charter of the Massachusetts colony, while gripping in the other hand a screed of protest from Boston citizens. In its sharp contrasts of highlighted flesh and dark clothes, it is a most dramatic image, and yet you can't tell from it where...