Elijah Muhammad Quotes
The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I am just one human being.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
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I'm speechless! I am so happy to have won MTV Brand New!
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I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.
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Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.
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I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look.
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I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
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Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.
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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.
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The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.
