Malcolm X Quotes
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Quotes to Explore
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.
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When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.
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It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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Fuck you perfectionism. Without you, I am brilliant.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
