Manning Marable Quotes
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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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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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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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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
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I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
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At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
