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Colson Whitehead Quotes

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

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History Black American Teach Well

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Team Individual Little Very Members

A lot of times, people have something that they're afraid of. They've got a client that's mad at them. They've got a project that's due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don't let that happen.

Stress People Mad Project Over Head

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.

Control Recognition Started Greece

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Love History People Enough You Look

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

Love Together Wife Thought Way Land

Early in the second season of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more 'like the way a kid would say it.' I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me.

Change Moment Me Remember Early Say

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

Lucia Micarelli

Trying Try Out Things Natural Where

All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

Down Now Will Way Never First

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

Light Doing Career Bored Little

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Women Woman Man Masculine Liberation

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

William Lashner

Trust Words You Back Television Go

The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.

Learning History Great Culture Men

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