Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Carter G. Woodson

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• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
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• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
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• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Things
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  • Slow

• Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fun
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• The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • May
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• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
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• I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Real
  • Remember

• I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • First
  • Texas
  • Touring

• There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
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• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
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  • Stuart

• One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Good
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• In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined, and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the Internet.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Internet
  • Stock

• My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Afraid
  • Questions
  • Tough

• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Women
  • Country

• If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
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  • Stop

• There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

  

  Bill Kristol

• Whatever it is, it’s OK because it’s what it is. Don’t be looking for perfection. Don’t be short-tempered with yourself. And you’ll be a whole lot nicer to be around with everyone else.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

• Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Player
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• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Want

• ...badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.

  

  Lauren Bacall

• Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Full

• If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Men
  • Want
  • Should