Elijah Muhammad Quotes
Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
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Historically, this culture has come to identify lesbians as women who over time, engage in a range and variety of sexual-emotional relationships with women. I, for one, identify a woman as a lesbian who says she is.
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I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
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O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
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Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.
