"The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Inspirational Quotes #Black History Quotes #Black Quotes

“I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.”

Source : "Rasmussen 'to give Turkey senior posts in Nato'" by Bruno Waterfied, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 6, 2009.
“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”
“Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.”
“He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!”
“But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.”
“I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.”

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