Thurgood Marshall Quotes

'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.

Thurgood Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1908 - January 24, 1993

Topics

ChangeYourselfPeopleBookThink

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John F. Kennedy

FreedomHistoryResponsibilityWorld

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

Steve Harvey

LifeFirstNeedClassroomAnything

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

LifeEffortGraceUniverseTragedy

I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

Michio Kaku

MoneyCreatingInvestmentNothing

I can't think, 'Ah, that team should call me up.' The only thing I can do is stay in shape and wait. You can only control what you can control.

Michael Sam

MeTeamWaitControlThinkYou

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.

Juan Diego Florez

MoneyParentsMeYouWayNever

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

Cobi Jones

ThinkBetterDoingGrowingWell

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Brad Falchuk

QualityYouDownTryBostonOut

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

Anthony Braxton

FreedomTimeSpaceGrowing UpFree

I want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

Aubrie Sellers

LoveMeSongLove MeCareerWant

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

Suzanne Vega

WorkPoliticalHoweverCharacterize

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

Serinda Swan

LoveRomanticStepMeComedyI Can

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