Nell Irvin Painter Quotes

• What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Culture, Looks, Depends

  Nell Irvin Painter (2011). “The History of White People”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  People, United States, Different

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Matter, Kind, No Matter What

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• En lugares como Alemania o Francia, la idea de blanco-negro no es tanto la de blanco-negro como la de "nuestra gente y ellos", y "ellos" pueden ser personas de Oriente Próximo como turcos o musulmanes o norteafricanos, todos los cuales bien podrían considerarse blancos en Estados Unidos.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Ideas, White, People

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Soy historiador profesional. Investigo. Tengo un doctorado. ¿Qué tiene que ver mi raza?

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Race, Doe, Research

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  White, Black, Hemisphere

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Art, Fun, Satisfying

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• La maravillosa exploración de Grigsby -una indagación profunda, amplia y hermosa sobre el uso que Sojourner Truth hizo de la tecnología- presenta más fotografías suyas de las que se han recopilado hasta ahora. Entre sus muchas reflexiones, me gustó especialmente el análisis del analfabetismo de Truth. Enduring Truths es historia del arte con un amplio concepto de la historia. Un libro estupendo, que necesitábamos desde hace mucho tiempo.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Hermoso, Arte, Libro

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• Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Thinking, People, Intellectual

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Real, Controversial, Century

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Art, Fun, Students

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Eye, Color, Needs

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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