Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
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In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
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I love books.
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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
