![It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.](/assets/img/quote-photos/its-been-obvious-that-republicansre-doing-everything-they-can-to-make-obama.jpg)
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african-american words-of-wisdom new-horizons
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston
african-american looks flutes
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds. Yusef Lateef
african-american inheritance half
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. William Labov
african-american legends kind
Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O. Jordan Peele
african-american president firsts
While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice. Harvey Fierstein
african-american peaceful courteous
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the... Malcolm X
african-american sitting diners
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
african-american want african-american-music
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. Johnny Otis
african-american age culture
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
substance conquer destruction
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. Walter Benjamin
substance goes-on matter
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. Virginia Woolf
substance advertising forget
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before. William Bernbach
substance divine-power needs
Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss. Wayne Dyer
substance world patterns
Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified. Robert M. Pirsig
substance wickedness matter
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters. Saint Augustine
substance world citizens
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you Wilson Mizner
substance done records
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done. Rudyard Kipling
substance ifs
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance. Yngwie Malmsteen
facts honest kids open smarter
Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important. Howard Simon
facts known signed
Had I known these facts about Kidan, I would never have signed Jack Abramoff
facts goes lead looks
He has no agenda. He looks at the facts, uncovers the facts and goes where the facts lead him. David Kelley
facts fits happily indeed largely somewhat thereafter
He is largely right in his conclusions, somewhat over-selective in his facts: most of what you will read thereafter you will find happily fits into his analysis, which is as it should be, because, as I said, he is indeed largely right. Hilaire Belloc
facts tables electrons
It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid. Richard P. Feynman
facts evolution illusion
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. Richard Dawkins
facts comfortable felt
I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride. Richard Widmark
facts world certain
In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov. Richelle Mead
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The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist. Umberto Eco