"The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Men Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes #Long Quotes

“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”

Source : Written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
“The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.”
“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”
“Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.”
“As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.”
“The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.”
“I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?”
“I don't give players a chance to hit me.”

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