Manning Marable Quotes

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

Manning Marable

• Thinking
• America
• Black
• Historical
• Remarkable

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Write
  • Dialogue

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach to say that he thinks my conditioning isn't there, that was something new for me. Because nobody never told me that, nobody questioned my conditioning or injuries or anything like that.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Problems
  • Coach
  • Injuries

• In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Strong
  • Paris

• I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dream
  • Film
  • Television

• In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things ... and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn't advance that civilization very much.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Gun
  • Civilization

• Do what you want be what you are You're the lady of my heart Oh, come, oh, come to me I was lonely, oh, so lonely I'll never break apart Your lovin' feeling Your senses reelin' You're the lady of my heart.

  

  Dieter Bohlen Modern Talking
  • Feeling
  • Lady
  • My Heart

• I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Black