Malcolm X Quotes
We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.
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The world is a dark place, and I find it endlessly funny.
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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When everyone turned away, the only person I could turn to was God within myself, and that is what I continue to rely on.
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You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
