Niger Innis (Niger Roy Innis) Quotes

When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Find

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Job
  • Dreams

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Freedom
  • Happiness
  • U.S.

• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Matter
  • Place
  • Born

• Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Responsibility
  • Special

• I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Born

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Decisions

• What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Happiness

• 'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Fall
  • Moments

• People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Important
  • American
  • Food

• I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the same way, photography halts and freezes motion and life.

  

  Annette Messager
  • Photography
  • Freezes
  • Taxidermy

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  

  Niger Innis
  • Responsibility
  • Happiness
  • Born