William James Quotes
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I don't order laws, I propose them.
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I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.
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I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.
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I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
