Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.
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Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.
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I have huge chunks of time when I'm not working.
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Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
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I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game.
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I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
