Frederick Marryat Quotes
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
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I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.
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No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
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A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
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If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, she's handy.
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White lies are ushers to black ones.
