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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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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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
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People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.
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The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.
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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
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In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.
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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.
