Manning Marable Quotes

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

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• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

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• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

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• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

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• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  

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• Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

  

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  • Great
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• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

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  • God
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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

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• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

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• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  

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  • Why
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• God does arithmetic.

  

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  • God
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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

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• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

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• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

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• I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

  

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  • Great
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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

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  • Life
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• When you have a great car, you want people to see the car.

  

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• Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

  

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• I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

  

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  • Discover
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• When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

  

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  • World
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• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • People
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• Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

  

  Manning Marable
  • American
  • Society
  • Faces