Rashid Johnson Quotes
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Rashid Johnson
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I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.
Olympia Snowe
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The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.
Andrew Breitbart
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All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?
Liane Moriarty
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I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
Marianne Williamson
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.
Richard Holbrooke
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Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.
H. L. Mencken
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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?
Abraham Lincoln
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West
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The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.
Annia Ciezadlo
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Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.
Abe Ajay
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My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Rashid Johnson
