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I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.


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PAUL WELLER It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...
PAUL HAWKEN The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served severa...
PAUL STAMETS Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
PAUL WHITEMAN In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y...
PAUL GOODMAN The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its...
PAUL DAVIES You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ...
PAUL NEWMAN There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it ...
PAUL EENHOORN As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores...
PAUL KRUGMAN Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly the...
PAUL VALERY Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives
PAUL WELLSTONE I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our ...
RAND PAUL I prize something that feels authentic. It's an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, ...
PAUL GREENGRASS