Geoffrey Canada Quotes
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
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Some people will always be disappointed.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
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When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
