Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Quotes to Explore
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.
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I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.
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I've always loved the music... My favorite kind of music is Christmas music and the only thing I love better music is my wife and daughters. So, hanging out with my wife and daughters and cuddling them will be pretty cool.
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When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
