"An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement."

-- Henry Louis Gates

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“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.”
“I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232
“When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.”
“I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!”
“For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.”

Source : "Interview With “Kyle XY” Actress Jaimie Alexander". Interview with Linda Craddock, www.sliceofscifi.com. January 17, 2008.
“Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.”
“I was always a God guy.”

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