Manning Marable Quotes
[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.
Quotes to Explore
-
The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
-
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
-
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
-
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
-
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
-
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
-
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
-
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
-
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
-
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
-
I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
-
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
-
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
-
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
-
There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
-
I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
-
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
-
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
-
When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.
-
I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
-
[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.
