Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
Valerie June -
On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
Gale Norton -
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.
Vanessa Williams -
One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.
Clifford Geertz
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You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.
Katherine Moennig -
I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.
Big Sean -
There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
David Hasselhoff -
As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.
John DiMaggio -
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.
Dagobert D. Runes
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
Brian Tracy -
Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
Liam Payne One Direction -
Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
Rachel Carson -
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
Joanne Rowling -
Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.
Jimmy Buffett -
Faith begins where religious pretension ends.
Austin Farrer
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
Forest Whitaker -
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
“I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.”
Aaron Elkins -
I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
Catherynne M. Valente -
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.