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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Follow the yellow brick road.
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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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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
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You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
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I love it when people make things look fun and easy. Guys like Dane Reynolds and Kelly Slater and Pedro on a skateboard, they're never forcing it.
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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.
