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

• I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Writing
  • School
  • Age

• 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

• Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women

• 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

• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Society

• 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

• Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Decision

• 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

• I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• 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

• Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight.

  

  Pep Guardiola

• 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

• I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly

• I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Lost

• I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Family

• If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

  

  Willard Scott
  • People
  • World
  • Eating

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• 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