Word: rainbow
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...convince America that we struggle too, to form the master narratives of people who don't look like us. Now some of our older sisters have paved the way for us. In fact, since the release of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enough, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Michelle Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, there's been an explosion of literature telling the world about black women's problems. I know about it. I'll assume that you know about...
Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...
Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...
When the meme began, in The Selfish Gene in 1976, the message was a negative one: genes aren't the only pebbles on the Darwinian beach. In 1998, in Unweaving the Rainbow, I could be more positive: "There is an ecology of memes, a tropical rainforest of memes, a termite mound of memes. Memes don't only leap from mind to mind by imitation, in culture. That is just the easily visible tip of the iceberg. They also thrive, multiply and compete within our minds. When we announce to the world a good idea, who knows what subconscious quasi-Darwinian...
Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His latest book is Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton Mifflin). This essay was adapted from his introduction to Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine (Oxford University Press...