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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
thinking issues want
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. Azar Nafisi
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. Bertrand Russell
thinking able taxation
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. Charles Kettering
thinking soul mind
When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself. Demi Lovato
thinking interesting rhyme
I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone. Demetri Martin
thinking iowa the-end-of-the-day
What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already. Bernie Sanders
thinking kind moments
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. Donald Judd
thinking dying worst
You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead. Donald Hall
thinking years people
It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years. Donald Fagen
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.