Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

Carter G. Woodson

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• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Free
  • Obsessed
  • Classic

• Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Days

• There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Women
  • Today

• Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture in Paris? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refusal to do so. I admit even that it cooled me, temporarily at least, in my esteem and admiration of Troyon.. ..and I after all, connected myself only with artists who were seeking.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paris

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Husband
  • Tree
  • Sky

• The dying crimson of the West That faintly tinged his haggard cheek, Fell on her as she stood, and shed A glory round the patient head.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • She
  • Dying

• My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.

  

  Bjork
  • Time

• The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Community
  • Wisdom
  • Progress

• MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

  

  Charles Petzold
  • Up

• Military families are resilient through countless relocations, leaving friends, networks and transitioning to new schools and new jobs while fitting in to new communities.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Friends
  • Military
  • Leaving

• A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Done
  • Help
  • Dance

• Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are - are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.

  

  Benjamin Watson

• Angolans who repatriate overseas funds and invest in the economy, companies that generate goods, services, and jobs won't be harassed. No questions will be asked about why their money was abroad, and they won't face legal prosecution.

  

  Joao Lourenco
  • Money
  • Why

• A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

  

  David Remnick
  • Good
  • May

• The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Alien

• I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

  

  Katia Winter
  • Light
  • Running
  • Shoes

• The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Grief

• In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Walk
  • Giants
  • Chose

• The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Fall
  • Happiness
  • Search

• If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Men
  • Justice
  • Effort