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I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American. Herman Cain
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I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. Willie Nelson
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It's what we are about. Everything we do involves educating people about who we are and West African food. Rose Thomas
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It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live. Spencer Wells
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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden. Lupita Nyong'o
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Imagine what a harmonious world it... Quincy Jones
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For African leaders to stand up and reject someone whose turn it is because of his human rights record could be a real coming of age.
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For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.
african appreciation citing creation diversity echo equality estate god humanity injustices land past promised society
For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.
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The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region.
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We should be pleased to have avoided some of the heavyweights of Asian football. It's a good draw.
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I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.
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L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity. Richard Florida
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The falling rupiah ... puts general pressure on Asian currencies. David Mann
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The Iraqi footballers have overcome testing times to win a qualifying berth for next year's Asian Cup finals in China and their coach has shown a lot of courage to continue on the job, Sepp Blatter
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All those who bring honor to our country at world class sports events such as the Olympic Games, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games will be richly rewarded.
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This is my first East Asian Games gold and I'm very happy for it.
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This has the potential to be as disastrous as the Asian tsunami. Tens of thousands of people could lose their lives. We could witness the total destruction of New Orleans as we know it.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
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Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual. Ruth Benedict
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Speech is civilization itself. Thomas Mann
civilization world poison
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that. Steven Erikson
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If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here – we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not – but this is more or less what is happening with AI, Stephen Hawking
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Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. Ron Paul
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Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them. Storm Jameson
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Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Stewart Brand
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The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them. Stephen Spender
native-american world noise
making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world. Robbie Robertson
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America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else. Isabel Wilkerson
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I was born where there were no enclosures. Geronimo
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I'm proud of my Native American heritage, Elizabeth Warren
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred. Black Elk
taken mind belief
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out. C. S. Lewis
taken rain ugly-things
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud. Dean Young
taken character hardship
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape. Antonya Nelson
taken kids writing
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write. David Bowie
taken two plums
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. Claire Danes
taken heart killers
We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. Clarence Darrow
taken mean writing
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. Daniel Day-Lewis
taken boys littles
Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time. David Caruso
taken men taking-things-for-granted
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?' Anthony Holden
westerns
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. Mel Brooks