"I could easily have decided that life was……" — Benjamin Carson
"I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me."
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177 Quotes by Benjamin Carson
Benjamin Carson has 177 quotes on this site.
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of…
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots…
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along,…
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're…
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Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have…
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If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal…
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going…
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in…
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and…
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd…
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
— Diane Ackerman
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the…
— Dan Aykroyd
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
— James A. Baldwin
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power…
— James A. Baldwin
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were…
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