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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
House

"There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters."

House Fields Ems
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
House

"The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house."

Trying House Slave
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
House

"You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house."

Men House White Man
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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
House

"No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time."

House Care Dry
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Indira Gandhi Politician
House

"If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood."

House Childhood Police
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Hannah Simone Actress
House

"I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there."

Thinking House Greek
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Gary Allan Country Music Singer
House

"I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that."

Play Fun House
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Oscar Wilde Writer
House

"Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque."

Men House Clothes
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Oscar Wilde Writer
House

"And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind."

House Blessing Grief
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Ovid Poet
House

"What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands."

Hands House Fire
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Ovid Poet
House

"When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down."

Lying Fall House
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House

"As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin."

Country House Tree
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
House

"I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that."

Would Be House Oil
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Neil Jordan Director
House

"The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels."

Country Taken House
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Marcel Proust Novelist
House

"My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane."

Giving House Yesterday
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