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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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 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 love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
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As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.
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Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.
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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.
