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.
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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.
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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!
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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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.
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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.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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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.
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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.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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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.
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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.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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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.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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Traditionally, nations have harnessed taxpayers to their territory by making almost all social guarantees dependent on working in one country, every day, every month, and for at least three decades. In creating free movement of people, this web has only got more complex but never disappeared.
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I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
