"I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?"

-- Nell Irvin Painter

#Race Quotes #Doe Quotes #Research Quotes

“If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.”
“To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.”
“The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related (or connected) among them; that they consider (or not) themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling (or sensation) that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow coutrymen whose paths berely cross (or see each only only briefly) with inferrence, would effusively rush themselves up (or throw themselves) into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 42), 1937.
“I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press
“I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.”
“I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.”
“I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.”
“There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.”

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