Geoffrey Canada Quotes
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
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Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
