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kings children school
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. Bobby Scott
kings drs dr-martin-luther-king
I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King. Mavis Staples
kings hero firefighter
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. Ken Salazar
kings slave
Kings are the slaves of history. Leo Tolstoy
kings
I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living John Flanagan
kings sleep knives
He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn. Maggie Stiefvater
kings science order
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas. Herodotus
kings character giving
It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
kings people drones
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost. John Dryden
greatness men poetry
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. John Drinkwater
greatness men world
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
artist sitting sage
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Charles Bukowski
artist literature morality
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. D. H. Lawrence
artist might censorship
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
artist literature never-trust
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
artist world fit
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
artist nashville used
It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. Crystal Gayle
artist trying roles
Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work." Danny Glover
artist two labels
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. Daniel Ek
artist diversity people
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.