Manning Marable Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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The business of America is business.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
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For the brief moments the song lasted, it was pure joy, stirred up from deep within, in that place not a soul can find, not until it comes alive with music and laughter.
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We again repeat, that there is no temper so communicative as an imaginative one.
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But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
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You have to face your fear.
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At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
