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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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
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Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
