Quotes 121 till 140 of 308.
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In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
A Bend in the River (2012) 52 -
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
Help, speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 3 March 2007, Moyers on Democracy -
Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
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It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
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It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
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It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.
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It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100 -
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75 -
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
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