“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
C. Wright Mills
“develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
Ambrose Bierce
“We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”
Anaxagoras
“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“The descent to Avernus is easy”
Virgil
