"In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view."

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John Henrik Clarke

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“Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.”
“Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.”
“The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.”

Source : BBC's "Question Time", September 18, 2008.
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
“I may as well do everything as if itâ€™s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of itâ€™s a compromise, then Iâ€™ll...Iâ€™ll be in Wisconsin.”
“We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”
“Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.”

Source : 'Herod's Song' (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)
“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”

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