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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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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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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.
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I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.
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I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.
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Forethought spares afterthought.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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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.
