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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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Know
  • City

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• 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.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• 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.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• 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.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Change
  • Reading

• The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Innovation

• I'm a very independent woman.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation

• Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Honesty

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience
  • Nature

• I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Opportunity
  • Wish

• Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World

• In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Women

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • World
  • History