Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Quotes

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Stokely Carmichael

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• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Fan

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Great
  • Alone

• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Never
  • Flowers

• I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Way
  • Thought

• I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Science
  • Understand
  • I Can

• They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dead

• For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Giving
  • Financial
  • Stress

• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Die
  • Bit

• The Turks would do anything with a captured screaming infidel body - make it chew its own penis, thrust the testicles up the anus, saw the noseless earless head off with slow delicacy.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

  

  Allen Ginsberg
  • World
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Father
  • Joy
  • Destiny

• The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • America

• If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in country after country after country, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, overthrowing elected governments and backing the rise of military dictatorships.

  

  Allan Nairn
  • Country
  • Fascism
  • Implement

• Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

  

  Stokely Carmichael
  • Country
  • Racism
  • Function