Quotes 621 till 640 of 661.
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
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Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
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White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
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White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Festus (1813) A Country Town -
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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