J C Watts Quotes

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• Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.
• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
• They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have…
• The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
• A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders,
• It takes a lot of strength to let go
• My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your…
• I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously,…
• I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
• Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a…
• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one…
• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing…
• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the…
• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get…
• It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
• I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order…
• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our…
• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

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