I see a man who is still quick to full-body redness at the slightest insult, who still coils up his fists every time someone mentions his mum in conversation.
That fire drove him to 5 Most Valuable Player awards and 10 scoring titles, and it was stoked by a series of perceived slights, insults and ill-advised challenges from Jordan's rivals.
Truffaut's scathing reply, which occupies six full pages of the book, lists a succession of slights, insults and betrayals, calls Godard a shit several times, and begins with the statement: "Jean-Luc.
In his 1993 book, "The Rage of a Privileged Class," the journalist Ellis Cose followed in this tradition, using numerous interviews to show that even wealthy and successful blacks suffered innumerable slights, insults and unexpressed prejudices that left them with an enduring frustration and pessimism.
In the same way Don Imus infamously referred to black women athletes as "nappy-headed hos," these constant slights, insults and even thoughtless oversights still must hurt.
In Obama's commencement speech at Tuskegee -- which is designated as a historically black university -- she encouraged graduates to challenge and rise above the racially-based slights, insults and indignities they may face.
No slight or insult is ever forgotten or forgiven.
Finally, there's a new political culture at City Hall, one that insists that every slight, perceived insult and factual error be answered in kind.
His increasingly bizarre looks invited snide comments in the press well before Martin Short parodied him on the TV show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (an event that has been linked to his suicide), and he could be driven to tears by a slight or insult, personal or professional.
