Henry Hampton Quotes
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
Quotes to Explore
-
Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
-
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
-
Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
-
I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
-
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
-
I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
-
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
-
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
-
I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
-
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
-
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
-
As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
-
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
-
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
-
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
-
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
-
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
-
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
-
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
-
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
-
He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
-
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
-
In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.
-
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
