Ida B. Wells Quotes
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
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Actors are limited by their appearance and while it has cost me some roles, it has got me some very important roles too.
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The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
