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George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American every day,…

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He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was…
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain.…
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'
There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world…
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The…
When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television…
When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them…
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a…
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin
Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end. — Jon Bon Jovi
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a… — Samuel Johnson
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. — George Bernard Shaw
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the… — Boyd K. Packer
We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees,… — Marvin J. Ashton
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of… — Plato
The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get… — John Landis
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not… — William Gurnall
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by… — Chauncey Wright
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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