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I know my easts and tom brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

-George MacDonald

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I Know My Easts And Tom Brown,

George MacDonald

I know my easts and tom brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

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That the religious right completely took over the word christian is a given. at one time, phrases such as christian charity and christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. to perform a "christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. now, christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- christian nation, christian morality, christian values, christian family.

Although i'm not christian, i was raised christian. i'm an atheist, with a slight buddhist leaning. i've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the christian morality.... i can't tell you how many films i've turned down because there was an absence of morality. and i don't mean that from any sort of judeo-christian-muslim point of view. i'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. but, fundamentally, i'm such a humanist that i can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

Just as uncle tom, back during slavery used to keep the negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the ku klux klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today martin luther king is just a twentieth-century or modern uncle tom or religious uncle tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep negroes defenseless in the face of attack that uncle tom did on the plantation to keep those negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the klan in that day.

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and i came in after tom courtenay had talked to ron harwood about making a movie. so, you know tom and albert finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - tom always reminds me that albert was first with saturday night and sunday morning and then tom with the long distance runner.

We younger negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. if white people are pleased, we are glad. if they are not, it doesn't matter. we know we are beautiful. and ugly too. the tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. if colored people are pleased, we are glad. if they are not, it doesn't matter either. we build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

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