It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must go beyond textbooks go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

I want to dance. I want to live.

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

Network neutrality protects the ability of users to access the lawful content, applications, and services of their choice. In other words, it lets users determine who wins and loses in the marketplace, and that's the way it should be.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

When we live longer, we must work a little bit longer.

If you fell down yesterday stand up today.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.

Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients and they teach young doctors. We look after clients and we teach young advertising people.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.