"I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way ."
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"For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals."
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"Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived."
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"The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race."
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"The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men."
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"A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him."
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"Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made."
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"Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made"
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"I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race."
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"Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!"
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"We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about."
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"For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty."
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"Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse."
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"Hopefully, the drivers will be able to race without running over one another. Anything with a heritage like this racetrack, I would not have messed with it. I would have saved my money."
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"I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion."
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"Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'"
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"During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids."
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"And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race."
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"Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face."
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"When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem."
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