Stephen Carter Quotes

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1954

Topics

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I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

Jeremy Lin

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When you chase a dream, and no one understand or has your back except seven friends from high school and your grandma, it's not going to be easy.

Jermaine Fowler

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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Max Muller

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

John Pomfret

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Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Amelia Earhart

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I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

Mathias Rust

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In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

Deborah Tannen

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One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

Chesley Sullenberger

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We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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I want to make music until I die.

Arca

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To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

William Safire

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