Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.
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You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
