Manning Marable Quotes
I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.
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I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
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It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.
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By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.
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We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
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I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.
