Malcolm X Quotes
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such patently phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I have always been a hard worker. I had to make some adjustments to find a way to make my delivery crisper and more repeatable.
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I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
