Stephen Carter Quotes
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Stephen Carter
Quotes to Explore
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
Rand Paul
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We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
Dan Gilbert
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I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.
Maelle Gavet
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
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All I want to do is change the world.
W. Clement Stone
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I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.
Whitney Houston
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye
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America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!
Carlos Bulosan
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco
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To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Stephen Carter