"Long gone is the time when we [blacks] opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and demand conformity to that norm.... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black."

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Source : Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.

Clarence Thomas

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.207, Penguin
“When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.”

Source : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
“God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.”
“I wasn't the leader of any gang.Â I was for Billy all the time.”
“Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.”
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
“From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.”
“I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.”

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