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 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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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
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I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.
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My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
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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.
