Manning Marable Quotes
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Quotes to Explore
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
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It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.
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There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
