Malcolm X Quotes
To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
Quotes to Explore
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.
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I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.
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Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.
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My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
