Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes
Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary that we may warrantably say that nine-tenths of it is about the Negro rather than of him, so that it is the Negro problem rather than the Negro that is known.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
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In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
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Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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I don't think the loss will make us play any harder. If you aren't playing hard at this point, then you aren't going to be playing hard anyway.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.
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I was branded a Negro in the States and had to act accordingly. They wouldn't even give me a chance in the big leagues because I was a Negro, yet they accepted every other nationality under the sun.
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Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary that we may warrantably say that nine-tenths of it is about the Negro rather than of him, so that it is the Negro problem rather than the Negro that is known.
