W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.
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Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.
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My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
