Social Display Quotes

The black community can be competitive and cautious when it comes to those we want put on display for the world to see and judge. We are a prideful people who believe that anything that will make us seem 'less than' should be hidden.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.