Arthur Mitchell famous quotes

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Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, â€˜put your hand on top.â€™ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
-- Arthur Mitchell

#Men #White #Rights
Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.
-- Arthur Mitchell

#Animal #Guilt #Remorse
What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.
-- Arthur Mitchell

#Giving #Be Who You Are #Doe
If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.
-- Arthur Mitchell

#Thinking #Phones #Cells
Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
-- Arthur Mitchell

#Knowing #Special #Rooms

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

Arthur Mitchell famous quotes

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