"The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties."

-- Carter G. Woodson

#White Quotes #Way Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.”
“We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.”
“Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2011
“To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.”
“I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.”
“Being worshipped is a horrible experience.”
“Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.”
“India is an Old country but a young nationâ€¦I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.”

Source : C. K. Jain, Rajiv Gandhi, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (1992). “Rajiv Gandhi and Parliament”

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