Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Carter G. Woodson

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Why
  • Think
  • Stop

• No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Try
  • Negative
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• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Know
  • Me
  • Tell

• You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Problem
  • Act
  • Nervous

• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Home
  • Find

• I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Food
  • Respect

• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Sea

• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

  

  Diplo
  • Future
  • Past

• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Story
  • Inside
  • Agony

• It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Time
  • Band
  • Brother

• Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.

  

  Charles Barkley

• He can run, but he can't hide.

  

  Joe Louis

• Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Men
  • Country
  • True

• Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • People
  • Brave

• I'm a low maintenance girl. I try to do very little when I don't have to. I find that if I have regular 'maintenance' treatments, I can be ready to go out in 5 minutes. I get my hair coloured, have regular massages, and love getting my lashes tinted and my brows shaped. Plus heaps of exercise, and as much sleep as possible. That way when I'm going out all I have to do is slick on some gloss, and a bit of blush and I am ready to go! Of course the LA sun helps too.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Sleep

• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
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