Word: ego
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...good to shatter every racist idea they have; it helps your own ego," he said "but you can't play into the stereotype...
...interested in gushing that "Nikki, the poet, has become a personality, a star." Last summer, The New York Times finally heard that Nikki Giovanni is a star and it found space for her in the Op-Ed page; Giovanni was ready for The Times with a long poem called "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)." The poem seems to invoke the voice of an African goddess who croons a mixture of nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables (such as the tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic...
Nikki Giovanni brandishes a strong ego, believing that it wards off exploitation. But that's not the way things work out. She recognizes the model's plight as a person whose deeper attributes will probably never be allowed to surface: "Being pretty has always had drawbacks for Black women; being beautiful is our natural state." Yet similar qualms about the image of herself that has been most widely spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch...
Frustation, anxiety, insecurity and impotence. Should I go home? Perhaps I don't really belong here anyway. Since I got here all I've been doing is trying to find guts. As you've probably noticed, I'm stupid and boring. Harvard doesn't do much for a tottering ego...
...organization's assassination coverage provides aid, comfort and inspiration to would-be assassins is also a matter of debate among psychiatrists. "These are lonely, alienated people who suddenly see an opportunity to become celebrities," says Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association. "Publicity gives them an ego massage." Yet Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California School of Medicine thinks press coverage has little to do with inciting potential assassins to pull the trigger. "They have much more personal, much more fantasy-like motivations than to call attention to themselves," he says. "News coverage does...