John Henrik Clarke Quotes
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
Fetty Wap
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
Nadia Comaneci
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
Randeep Hooda
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
Zach Braff
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
Karin Slaughter
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
Irvine Welsh
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
Pat Buchanan
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell
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The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
Anthony Storr
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It's possible to be hard-boiled and not noir, just as it's possible to be noir and not hard-boiled. And it is possible to be both. People debate endlessly what is hard-boiled and what is noir.
Allan Guthrie
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The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
Jose Andres
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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.
Sarah Silverman
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
John Henrik Clarke