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Cornel West

Cornel Ronald West (born 2 June 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual. The son of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." A radical democratic socialist, West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters (1994) and Democracy Matters (2004). He is currently running a third-party campaign in the 2024 United States presidential election.

Quotes

 * I focus on popular culture because I focus on those areas where black humanity is most powerfully expressed, where black people have been able to articulate their sense of the world in a profound manner. And I see this primarily in popular culture. Why not in highbrow culture? Because the access has been so difficult. Why not in more academic forms? Because academic exclusion has been the rule for so long for large numbers of black people that black culture, for me, becomes a search for where black people have left their imprint and fundamentally made a difference in terms of how certain art forms are understood. This is currently in popular culture. And it has been primarily in music, religion, visual arts and fashion.
 * "Cornel West interviewed by bell hooks" in Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991)

 * In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
 * "The Role of Law in Progressive Politics" in Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (1993)

 * The Enlightenment worldview held by Du Bois is ultimately inadequate, and, in many ways, antiquated, for our time. The tragic plight and absurd predicament of Africans here and abroad requires a more profound interpretation of the human condition — one that goes beyond the false dichotomies of expert knowledge vs. mass ignorance, individual autonomy vs. dogmatic authority, and self-mastery vs. intolerant tradition.
 * The Future of the Race (1997) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West, p. 64

 * To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. That is, it creates a vision of the world that puts into the limelight the social misery that is usually hidden or concealed by the dominant viewpoints of a society. "Intellectual" in that sense simply means those who are willing to reflect critically upon themselves as well as upon the larger society and to ascertain whether there is some possibility of amelioration and betterment.
 * "Chekhov, Coltrane, and Democracy: Interview by David Lionel Smith." in

 * Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.
 * Interview in African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998) edited by George Yancy, p. 35

 * The authority of science … promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies.… Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality…. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.
 * Prophesy Deliverance! (2002)

 * I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.
 * Speech in San Francisco: Democracy Matters (1 October 2004)

 * Free-market fundamentalism trivializes the concern for public interest. It puts fear and insecurity in the hearts of anxiety-ridden workers. It also makes money-driven, poll-obsessed elected officials deferential to corporate goals of profit – often at the cost of the common good. … The free-market fundamentalism that prevails in the United States today promotes the pervasive sleepwalking of the populace. People see that the false prophets are handsomely rewarded — with money, status and access to more power. … We are experiencing the sad gangsterization of America — an unbridled grasp at power, wealth and status.
 * "Cornel West: Democracy Matters" in The Globalist (24 January 2005)

 * You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.
 * Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom (2008); also on "The Way I See It" Starbucks Coffee Cup #284

 * Justice is what love looks like in public.
 * Brother West (2009), p. 232

 * From whence are these "rights of individuals" derived, and why should we care? Unless we presume the existence of some greater power that determines what is good, isn't it arbitrary to posit that human survival is more important than private property rights, an equally artificially construed concept? Isn't it arbitrary to assume that some sort of equality is preferable to a system where, say, the poor are assumed to have bad karma? If these 'rights of individuals' are derived only from shared humanity, then do 'individuals' (a thoroughly meaningless term, by the way), begin to lose them when they act inhumanely? And isn't it totally arbitrary to grant rights to humans rather than other creatures anyway?
 * Lecture in New Haven, On Constructed Rights (28 February 2013)

 * The rule of Big Money and its attendant culture of cupidity and mendacity has so poisoned our hearts, minds and souls that a dominant self-righteous neoliberal soulcraft of smartness, dollars and bombs thrives with little opposition.
 * "America is spiritually bankrupt. We must fight back together." The Guardian, (14 January 2018)

 * Well, as you know, I was blessed to do over a hundred events for my dear brother [Bernie Sanders]. And this is the first time I’ve had a chance to publicly endorse him again, but yes, indeed. I’ll be in his corner that we’re going to win this time. And it has to do with the Martin Luther King like criteria of assessing a candidate namely the issues of militarism, poverty, materialism, and racism, xenophobia in all of its forms that includes any kind of racism as you know against black people, brown people, yellow people, anybody, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Kashmirians, Tibetans and so forth. So that there’s no doubt that the my dear brother Bernie stands shoulders above any of the other candidates running in the Democratic primary when it comes to that Martin Luther King-like standards or criteria.
 * Quoted in: Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism, The Intercept, Mehdi Hasan,   (7 March 2019)

 * [Bernie Sanders is]...an anti-racist in his heart. Two, he’s old-school. He’s like me. He doesn’t know the buzzwords. He doesn’t endorse reparations, one moment in the last 30 years, silent on it. He has the consistency over the years decade after decade and therefore it’s true in his language, in his rhetoric. There are times in which he doesn’t... use the same kind of buzzwords. But when it comes to his fight against racism, going to jail in Chicago as a younger brother and he would go to jail again. He and I would go to jail together again in terms of fighting against police brutality. So in that sense, I would just tell my brothers and sisters, but especially my chocolate ones that they shouldn’t be blinded by certain kinds of words they’re looking for, that in the end, he is a long distance runner in the struggle against white supremacy.
 * Quoted in: Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism, The Intercept, Mehdi Hasan   (7 March 2019)

 * The most taboo issue on U.S. campuses these days, in many instances, has to do with the vicious Israeli occupation of precious Palestinians. It’s very difficult to have a respectful, robust conversation about that. And I am unequivocal in my solidarity with Palestinian brothers and sisters... I’m not in any way going to stop talking about the Palestinian plight and predicament.
 * Speaking in Too Radical for Harvard? Cornel West on Failed Fight for Tenure, Biden’s First 50 Days & More, Democracy Now!, (10 March 2021)

 * Harvard now, I think, suffers from a kind of self-idolatry, that it needs to be critical of itself in order to grow. And again, if you can be in contact with the best of its past, then it’s got a chance. But if it just remains well adjusted to the status quo, generating careerist and opportunist students rather than critically oriented students who have a heart and soul, concerned about suffering here and around the world — then Harvard has a chance. I’m not giving up on Harvard, but I am making my way to New York.
 * Speaking in Too Radical for Harvard? Cornel West on Failed Fight for Tenure, Biden’s First 50 Days & More, Democracy Now!, (10 March 2021)
 * It’s time for me to go back to the great Union Theological Seminary. That’s my institutional home, my brother. I can stretch out and try to be a truth teller and bear witness, still learn and listen, but also be in the middle of the Big Apple. Nothing like it... Union Theological Seminary means so much to me, because in that context I can be the full, free Black man, the Jesus-loving, free Black man, fundamentally committed to focusing on the oppressed around the world.
 * Speaking in Too Radical for Harvard? Cornl West on Failed Fight for Tenure, Biden’s First 50 Days & More, Democracy Now!, (10 March 2021)

 * With a few glorious and glaring exceptions, the shadow of Jim Crow was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity... The disarray of a scattered curriculum, the disenchantment of talented yet deferential faculty, and the disorientation of precious students loom large... To witness a faculty enthusiastically support a candidate for tenure then timidly defer to a rejection based on the Harvard administration’s hostility to the Palestinian cause was disgusting... We all know the mendacious reasons given had nothing to do with academic standards... This kind of narcissistic academic professionalism, cowardly deference to the anti-Palestinian prejudices of the Harvard administration, and indifference to my Mother’s death constitutes an intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep deaths...
 * Quoted in Civil rights activist Cornel West resigns from Harvard, By Jackie Salo, New York Post, July 13, 2021

 * We’re at such a low point in the . Its spiritual decay and its immoral decadence are so profound that we have to begin on the foundational level of a spiritual awakening and a moral reckoning. Organized greed. Institutionalized hatred. Routinized indifference to the lives of poor and working people of all colors. We’ve got to get beyond an analysis of the predatory capitalist processes that have saturated every nook and cranny of the culture. We’ve got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonized by corporate wealth and by monied elite. We’ve got to get beyond that sense of impotence of the citizenry. These are all the signs of an . The only thing that we have to add is military overreach, and we see that as well.
 * Speaking to Chris Hedges about his decision to run for president in 2024. Chris Hedges: Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for President. Scheerpost. June 5, 2023

 * If the only alternative to fascism we produce is a corporate-driven, milquetoast, neoliberal, fascism will come to America. Let us be very clear. It’s like a America.
 * Speaking to Chris Hedges on, Cornel West's presidential candidacy is 'for the least of these'. June 16, 2023.

 * The Democratic Party is beyond redemption at this point when it comes to seriously speaking to the needs of poor and working people… The neofascism that's escalating is predicated on the rottenness of a system in which the Democratic Party facilitates that frustration and desperation because it can't present an alternative… If America is unable to present an alternative to the Democratic Party, then we're going fascist.
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYeomfmHGXQ&ab_channel=TheHill

 * The Democratic Party is beyond redemption at this point when it comes to seriously speaking to the needs of poor and working people… The neofascism that's escalating is predicated on the rottenness of a system in which the Democratic Party facilitates that frustration and desperation because it can't present an alternative… If America is unable to present an alternative to the Democratic Party, then we're going fascist.
 * Cornel West On Rising: Bernie, AOC Are 'WINDOW DRESSING' At Best, Dems 'BEYOND REDEMPTION' Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave interview 2024 presidential candidate for the Green Party Dr. Cornel West, Rising: The Hill TV (Premiered: Aug. 29, 2023)

Race Matters (1993)

 * for liberals, black people are to be “included” and “integrated” into “our” society and culture, while for conservatives they are to be “well behaved” and “worthy of acceptance” by “our” way of life. Both fail to see that the presence and predicaments of black people are neither additions to nor defections from American life, but rather constitutive elements of that life. (p3)

 * The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. (p4)

 * as long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. (p15)

 * Nihilism is not overcome by arguments or analyses; it is tamed by love and care. Any disease of the soul must be conquered by a turning of one’s soul. (p19)

 * This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience. (p29)

 * Quality leadership is neither the product of one great individual nor the result of odd historical accidents. Rather, it comes from deeply bred traditions and communities that shape and mold talented and gifted persons. Without a vibrant tradition of resistance passed on to new generations, there can be no nurturing of a collective and critical consciousness—only professional conscientiousness survives. (p37)

 * Humility is the fruit of inner security and wise maturity. To be humble is to be so sure of one’s self and one’s mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one’s self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically. (p38)

 * The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis. (p52)

 * My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people. We indeed must criticize and condemn immoral acts of black people, but we must do so cognizant of the circumstances into which people are born and under which they live. By overlooking these circumstances, the new black conservatives fall into the trap of blaming black poor people for their predicament. It is imperative to steer a course between the Scylla of environmental determinism and the Charybdis of a blaming-the-victims perspective. (p56)

 * Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without principled opposition to xenophobias from above and below, these desperate channels will produce a cold-hearted and mean-spirited America no longer worth fighting for or living in. (p79)

 * Anytime two human beings find genuine pleasure, joy, and love, the stars smile and the universe is enriched. Yet as long as that pleasure, joy, and love is still predicated on myths of black sexuality, the more fundamental challenge of humane interaction remains unmet. (p85)

 * Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. Yet the concrete practice of the US legal system from 1883 to 1964 promoted a tyranny of the white majority much more than a safeguarding of the rights of black Americans. (p. 102-3)

 * Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

 * In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p 109)

 * every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Race is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy. (p155 of 2001 edition)

 * this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women, the subordination of European working-class men and the closeting of homosexuals. These realities made many of the words of the revolutionary Declaration of Independence ring a bit hollow. yet the enslavement of Africans -- over 20 percent of the population -- served as the linchpin of American democracy; that is, the much-heralded stability and continuity of American democracy was predicated upon black oppression and degradation. Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white -- they would be only Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and others engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. What made America distinctly American for them was not simply the presence of unprecedented opportunities, but the struggle for seizing these opportunities in a new land in which black slavery and racial caste served as the floor upon which white class, ethnic, and gender struggles could be diffused and diverted. In other words, white poverty could be ignored and whites' paranoia of each other could be overlooked primarily owing to the distinctive American feature: the basic racial divide of black and white peoples. From 1776 to 1964… this racial divide would serve as a basic presupposition for the expansive functioning of American democracy, even as the concentration of wealth and power remained in the hands of a Few well-to-do white men. (p156 of 2001 edition)

 * The political triumph of Donald Trump is a symbol and symptom—not cause or origin—of our imperial meltdown. Trump is neither alien nor extraneous to American culture and history. In fact, he is as American as apple pie. Yet he is a sign of our spiritual bankruptcy—all spectacle and no substance, all narcissism and no empathy, all appetite and greed and no wisdom and maturity. Yet his triumph flows from the implosion of a Republican Party establishment beholden to big money, big military, and big scapegoating of vulnerable peoples of color, LGBTQ peoples, immigrants, Muslims, and women; from a Democratic Party establishment beholden to big money, big military, and the clever deployment of peoples of color, LGBTQ peoples, immigrants, Muslims, and women to hide and conceal the lies and crimes of neoliberal policies here and abroad; and from a corporate media establishment that aided and abetted Trump owing to high profits and revenues. (2017 introduction)

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2004)

 * The blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history. (p20)

 * To many, our democratic system seems so broken that they have simply lost faith that their participation could really matter. The politics of self-interest and catering to narrow special interests is so dominant that so many ask themselves: Why vote? This disaffection stems both from the all-too-true reality of the corruptions of our system and from a deeper psychic disillusionment and disappointment. The is so formulaic, so tailored into poll-driven, focus-group-approved slogans that don't really say anything substantive or strike at the core of our lived experience; the lack of authenticity of discourse—and the underlying lack of gravitas, of penetrating insight and wisdom on the part of politicians—is numbing. But we must keep in mind that the disgust so many feel comes from a deep desire to hear more authentic expressions of insights about our lives and more genuine commitment to improving them. Many of us long for expressions of real concern both about the pain of our individual lives and about the common good [...] as opposed to the blatant catering to base interests and to narrow elite constituencies. We long for politics that in not about winning a political game but about producing better lives.
 * {{cite book |title=Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism |date=2005 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-101-65586-3 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZYNzIa9OyQEC&pg=PT46

 * To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. (p172)

Quotes about Cornel West

 * Cornel West thinks like a sage, acts like a warrior and writes like a poetical prophet.
 * Maya Angelou The Cornel West Reader (1999)

 * One of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic and healing voices in America today.
 * Marian Wright Edelman The Cornel West Reader (1999)

 * The pre-eminent African-American intellectual of our generation.
 * Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Cornel West Reader (1999)

 * Noted UCLA professor Robin Kelley... wote... “Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters.” And he says, “Harvard has a problem with outspoken, principled faculty who take public positions that question university policy, challenge authority, or might ruffle the feathers of big donors. And when the faculty in question are scholars of color, their odds of getting through the tenure process are slim to none.”... And... the Harvard Black Law Students Association [wrote].. to the administration, “Harvard’s refusal to consider Dr. West for tenure continues a consistent pattern of practice that undermines and devalues the scholarship of Black professors and professors of color...The refusal to consider Dr. West for tenure raises concerns about the future treatment of Black academics and academics of color in a tenure process that already lacks transparency.”
 * Amy Goodman in Too Radical for Harvard? Cornel West on Failed Fight for Tenure, Biden’s First 50 Days & More, Democracy Now!, (10 March 2021)

 * To paraphrase scholar Cornel West, you can't save a country you don't serve, and you can't lead a country you don't love. And there is much to love in this country.
 * Van Jones The Green Collar Economy (2008)

 * Most commonly, the public face even on positive Jewish-African American relations has been inscribed as largely male. Michael Lerner and Cornel West, though they mention gender, do so in booming patriarchal voices. It took years before they invited a woman to join their public conversations, and though their choice of partner-Susannah Heschel, Director of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth and daughter of Rabbi Heschel-is apt, might not the gentlemen have also included an African American woman? What about an African American Jew?
 * Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007)

 * We need to recognize the destructive role played by the media in fanning the flames of the "Black-Jewish Conflict." Cornel West, bell hooks, Richard Green, Barbara Christian, Henry Louis Gates, Marian Wright Edelman, Nell Painter, Albert Raby....Why are these names not as well known outside the African American community as the names of Louis Farrakhan or Leonard Jeffries? Are they, in their diversity and dynamism, less representative of the African American community?
 * Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz "Jews, Class, Color, and the Cost of Whiteness" in The Issue is Power (1992)

 * Cornel West, the African American philosopher and writer, spoke recently in San Francisco talking about the importance of linkages. For example, he said gay and lesbian rights are an issue in the African American community. They aren’t separate, outside of the community. Just because the issue is not welfare, or racism, or gangs, that doesn’t mean it’s not a Black community issue. I think that’s a very useful and important way to look at things. I know a lot of Latinos wouldn’t agree that gay and lesbian rights are a Latino issue. But we need to work for this understanding and make it clear that the issue is not a problem for a bunch of people outside the Latino community who happen to be gay or lesbian. It’s inside our community. Taking that kind of position is the only way that in fact makes sense.
 * Elizabeth Martinez, Interview (1993)

 * The aim of fiction is to break down stereotypes. Unfortunately, the publishing and academic industries seem to profit more from reinforcing stereotypes. This is what African American intellectuals have to deal with too. That's why I feel I'm on the same wavelength with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West, James Alan McPherson. Why should a minority person be made to feel guilty because she believes education leads to both self-improvement and national enlightenment? To me, class is as divisive as race.
 * 1996 interview in Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee Edited by Bradley C. Edwards (2009)

 * Cornel West is not simply a lucid African-American guide equal to the complexities of real multiculturalism, but also an authentic teacher of hope and reason.
 * Edward Said The Cornel West Reader (1999)

 * Famed civil rights activist Cornel West announced he is leaving his post at Harvard University’s Divinity School in a scathing resignation letter — accusing the institution of “spiritual rot” and describing it as in a state of “decay and decline.” In a letter shared to Twitter on Monday night, the professor of African American studies said he had taken an untenured position four years ago with the hope that he could “still end his career with some semblance of intellectual intensity and personal respect.... "How wrong I was!...” wrote West, 68... [He]... had previously been a tenured Harvard professor before he quit in 2002 — said it had become disheartening to see the institution in a state of “decline and decay.” ... The prominent black philosopher also said he received the “lowest increase possible” to his salary every year since he returned to campus. When he was recommended for a tenure review, the university rejected it over his support of Palestine, he said.  He then lamented a lack of personal engagement and empathy from colleagues outside of work and academia, including how he only received two replies to news of his mother’s death in a newsletter. West said he was resigning with “precious memories but absolutely no regrets.”
 * Civil rights activist Cornel West resigns from Harvard, By Jackie Salo, New York Post, July 13, 2021

 * Dr. Cornel West, one of the most important philosophers of our time
 * Bernie Sanders, Where We Go from Here (2018)

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 * "The reason people lose their healing is because they begin questioning if God really did it."

 * "...I put a curse upon anyone who comes against this ministry..."

 * "There is nine in the Trinity..."

 * "One afternoon, I saw a man in my bedroom… He was wrapped in fire… He was standing about this high off the floor". motions about one foot up with hand. "His feet never touch the floor, he was wrapped in fire. I screamed, Paul, screamed loud, visibly screamed."

 * "My! My! My!" rallying call, often used in speeches.

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James Bond 007: Nightfire

James Bond 007: Nightfire is a first-person shooter video game based on Ian Fleming's British secret agent James Bond. It was developed by Eurocom for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox video game consoles and PCs. It was published by Electronic Arts in 2002.
 * Directed by Tim Rogers. Written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo.

James Bond

 * Can I offer you a lift? (Bond, level 1)
 * Sorry, we forgot to make a reservation. (Bond level 3)
 * Anything can be penetrated with the proper tool. (Bond, level 6)
 * I'd give that dive a 'three', actually. (Bond on level 2. If the player shoots a particular guard in the head without being noticed, he falls backwards into a frozen pool)
 * Sorry to drop in like this, but would you ladies mind giving me a ride? (When Bond parachutes off the top of Phoenix International, level 6, and lands on a car belonging to two Japanese girls)
 * "Q", your confidence is overwhelming. (Bond; PC, Level 4)
 * [after killing Drake] Try rising from 'those' ashes.

Zoe Nightshade

 * I don't recall getting much rest at all James. (Zoe, level 3)

Alura McCall

 * James, they're on us. (Alura, level 10)

Alexander Mayhew

 * Feed it to the dragon. (Mayhew, level 5)

Q

 * [after picking up Bond] Welcome aboard, 007.

Raphael Drake

 * If this security breach leads back to Japan, it's your head Mayhew! (Drake in level 2)
 * I'd ask you to join us Mr. Bond, but why waste caviar on a man who won't live long enough to enjoy it? (Drake, level 8)
 * It's a shame. I fell quite hard for you, and now it's time you do the same for me. Goodbye, Dominique. Use the helipad, and take care of the body! (Drake, level 8, to his minions after exposing Dominique as a traitor)
 * I'll credit you with persistence Mr. Bond, persistence and failure. (Drake, level 12)
 * Remember that view Mr. Bond, it's the last you'll ever see of earth. (Drake, level 12)
 * The communists, socialists and fascists would be destined to fail in their efforts at globalization. (Drake, level 11)
 * You may have stopped the fire this time Bond, but like the Phoenix, I will rise from the ashes... (Drake as he drifts into space, Level 12)

Makiko "Kiko" Hayashi

 * You look exhausted James. What would you say to a little nap? (Kiko before she shoots Bond with a dart gun, level 7)
 * Damn you Bond! (Kiko on level 11)

Armitage Rook

 * Deploy the red team and take him down! (Rook in level 7)
 * Somehow, he's worked his way into the complex. The Elite Guards 'will' hold the line. I'm going below to cut the power so he can't follow. But if Bond does reach the facility, I'll be sure to thank him for the makeover he gave me. (Rook to a Phoenix Commando, level 11)

Dialogue

 * Drake: You're on a fool's errand, Mr. Bond. I've already locked the launch sequence. Nothing can stop Operation Nightfire now; not even my own death!
 * Bond: That's a theory I mean to test!

 * Zoe: James, why do you always end up on top?
 * Bond: Uh, lower center of gravity?
 * Bond: Kiko? Kiko where are you?

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Talk:Alexander Hamilton

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Error on the page
James Madison wrote Federalist #62, not Alexander Hamilton

Falsely Attributed
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - This has been falsely attributed, likely due to name confusion with British journalist Alex Hamilton, who said this in 1978. Reference

 * Also attributed (very close paraphrase) to Malcolm X- if accurately attributed, then (of course) before 1966... - 104.229.71.84 02:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC) (User Schissel @ Wikipedia.)

Bogus Source
This quote is sourced to Federalist #28 -- but it does not occur within that document:

"The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call."

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Alexander Hamilton. --Antiquary 21:14, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

"Caesar", Letter II, New-York Daily Advertiser, 17 October 1787 -- often but wrongly attributed to Alexander Hamilton
 * For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

 * A promise must never be broken.
 * This is a fragment from a letter to his son dated 5 December 1791; it hardly seems distinctive enough to be quoted. The text reads "You remember that I engaged to send for you next Saturday, and I will do it unless you request me to put it off; for a promise must never be broken, and I never will make you one which I will not fill as far as I am able; but it has occurred to me that the Christmas holidays are near at hand, and I suppose your school will then break up for a few days and give you an opportunity of coming to stay with us for a longer time than if you should come on Saturday."

 * I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray.... for me.

 * I think the first duty of society is justice.
 * This was actually said by Wendell Phillips. I'm going to move it to him.

 * In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

 * It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government,

 * Learn to think continentally.

 * Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

 * Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

 * Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

 * Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

 * There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

 * This is the constitution... Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

 * Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and haulers of water.

 * We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

 * When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

 * This is a mortal wound, doctor.

The quote "For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system, which, without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests" is NOT a Hamilton quote; it is from a newspaper essay, "Caesar," Letter II, appearing in the New York Daily Advertiser for 17 October 1787. Most scholars agree that this essay and its precursor were plants by opponents of the Constitution seeking to satirize arguments for the document, and the attribution to Hamilton is based on nothing more than wishful thinking. -- RBB1787

I removed several quotations for which sources have been located from the above list. Sbh 04:45, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Activist Judges: The Breaking of the American System
The Government cannot determine the Character of a Nation. The Character of the People of a Nation determine the Government.

Joseph V. Ruggiero 2014

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User talk:Masterofquotes

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Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted (1997) is an Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine. It is also the title of the American movie based on the novel and released April 9, 2004 directed by Tommy O'Haver and starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy. The story is a contemporary retelling of Cinderella featuring various mythical creatures.

Quotes

 * Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

 * Has she gone mad, to speak such falsehood?

 * Dear Ella, Impatience is not usually my weakness. But your letters torment me. They make me long to saddle my horse and ride to Frell, where I would make you explain yourself. They are playful, interesting, thoughtful, and (occasionally) serious. I'm overjoyed to receive them, yet they bring misery. You say little of your daily life; I have no idea how you occupy yourself. I don't mind; I enjoy guessing at the mystery. But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry — until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings. Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no. I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned. You would charm him, and Mother too. They would be yours completely. As I am. What a beautiful bride you'll be, whomever you marry at whatever age. And what a queen if I am the man! Who has your grace? Your expression? Your voice? I could extol your virtues endlessly, but I want you to finish reading and answer me quickly. Today I cannot write of Ayortha or my doings or anything. I can only post this and wait. Love (it is such a relief to pen the word!), love, love— Char

 * That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. (p. 3)

 * "I know you can imitate people just as Lady Eleanor could. Once you imitated your manservant to his face, and he wasn't sure whether he was the servant or you were. You make up your own fairy tales and you drop things and trip over things. I know you once broke a whole set of dishes." "I slipped on ice!" "Ice chips you spilled before you tripped on them." He laughed. (pp. 13-14)

 * "What a clever daughter I have." Mum Olga beamed at Hattie. "As clever as she is beautiful," I said.

 * "I don't suppose your eyes ever pop out," I said. "I don't think so." Hattie smiled complacently. "They're too small to pop." (p. 21)

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John Trudell

John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was an American author, a poet, musician and a former political activist.

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 * When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... We see the physical genocide that they are attempting to inflict upon our lives, and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.
 * The Indigenous Voice, Vol.2, Roger Moody, ed, UK.

"We are Power" speech (1980)
Available online at youtube.com Full text online
 * There are insane people who wish to rule the world. They wish to continue to rule the world on violence and repression, and we are all the victims of that violence and repression.

 * They are going to become more brutal. They are going to become more oppressive.

 * We have to understand who we are and where we fit in the natural order of the world because our oppressor deals in illusions. They tell us that it is power, but it is not power. They may have all the guns and they may have all the racist laws and judges, and they may control all the money, but that is not power. These are imitations of power and they are only ‘power’ because in our minds we allow it to be power.

 * This oppressor, this machine that has gone mad and run amok, it is berserk. They keep telling us, "progress.” They keep telling us “face reality.” Well, let’s deal with reality. Reality is the Earth can no longer take this attack. We can no longer allow this Thing to continue when it’s polluting the air, it’s polluting the water, polluting our food. They pollute the air, they pollute the water, they pollute our food, they pollute our minds.

 * Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars.

 * The Earth gives us life, not the American government. The earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life. We need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do.

Columbus Day Speech, San Francisco (1992)

 * Columbus, I guess it all did start with Columbus. ... To me he was like a virus, a disease. I spent a lot of time protesting, trying to figure out how to deal with this disease. I think we really need to put serious thought into understanding that we're dealing with a disease.

 * It's like there's this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds upon the essence of the spirit, feeds upon the essence of the human being, the spirit. This predator energy can take fossil fuel and other resources out of the Earth, turn it into fuel, to run a machine system. But in order for there to be a need for that system, and in order for that system to work, they have to mine our minds to get at the essence of our spirit. In the same way the external mining takes place, it pollutes—we see now, people understand how it poisons the environment, the water, the air pollution—the mining of the essence, the mining of the spirit, mining our minds ... the pollution from that is all the neurotic, distorted, insecure behavior patterns that we develop. That's the pollution. Because in order for this predatory system, this disease, to work, we must not be able to use our minds in a clear coherent manner. Because if we use our minds in a clear coherent manner, we will not accept the unacceptable.

"What it Means to be a Human Being" Speech (2001)

 * San Francisco, CA, March 2001 Listen online

 * Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

 * The past is more than a memory.

 * Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Javier Rivero-Diaz

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:06, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Javier Rivero-Diaz
Not notable. The top Google result is this WQ page, and most of the other results are in Spanish, indicating that any notability he may have has not penetrated the English-speaking community that en.wq serves. 121a0012 02:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:06, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete unless English-world notability evidence provided and quotes sourced. es:WQ has essentially the same article we have, except for the English translations, created by the same IP address. (Oddly, we have 1 more quote, and Español has the identical English intro.) IMDb credits a "Javier Rivero Diaz" (no hyphen) as "First Assistant Director" of a single comedy film from Spain, Llámame, which looks pretty bad for the notability case. Neither en:WP nor es:WP have an article on "Javier Rivero-Diaz", with or without the hyphen. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Joel Gertner

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Joel Gertner
Another one of those inane pro-wrestling pages. Also a possible copyvio from. Is there anything here that is worth salvaging? I don't want to discourage the pro-wrestling fans from contributing to WQ, but I think we need to insist on a higher standard of quality than most of these articles display. 121a0012 03:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes sourced. Unlike 121a0012, I want to discourage wrestling fans from contributing until they can show some evidence that they aren't just making this stuff up, or copying it from other websites that are making it up. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Jeffq. ~ UDScott 13:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - Agree with the opinions above. Also, the "lemon" quote is from a Led Zeppelin lyric, presumably copyrighted. --LHollister 21:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/John A. Rassias

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John A. Rassias
Advertising. 121a0012 03:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. No WP article or deletion discussion, either. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete®. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 16:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Mac Fraser

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Mac Fraser
This video-game character does not appear to have said anything quotable. 121a0012 03:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom. No WP article. Content not worth moving to SSX. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't expect that there's anything from SSX worth putting onto a Wikiquote page, as it's not the sort of game known for it's dialogue. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:28, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Macedonism

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Macedonism
I'm not sure how to describe the way this article strikes me, but it does not seem to me appropriate for a compendium of quotations. (It seems closer in spirit to the "Definitions of X" articles which have been discussed before.) The question again arises: are the people quoted notable? Who translated these works, and are the translations reliable or verifiable? 121a0012 03:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; 1 keep; sources not provided in English). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment: This article appears to be an attempt at a "backing" quote article for Macedonism. We've talked about using articles to include quotes cited or alluded to in Wikipedia articles, but I don't think we have any actual policy on this. (It is, as far as I recall offhand, a novel use of Wikiquote.) Whatever the case, this article should be formatted more along WQ than WP guidelines, and the sources described in English (with, as 121a0012 said, cited translations, or else they can't really be sources for en:WQ or en:WP). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:11, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless more notable, and properly formatted and cited quotes are added. ~ UDScott 13:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Only one of the three quotes actually seems to be about Macedonism; the other seem to simply use the term. Having the sources available in English would be a definite plus, though. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Delete because of bad formatting? Why not improve it instead of deleting. FunkyFly 17:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * There are sources provided for the quotes, so they can certainly be verified. FunkyFly 17:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * As I discuss in more detail at Talk:Macedonism, it is unreasonable to expect en:Wikiquote readers to verify information that is insufficiently specific to easily identify (no dates or publication details) or not given in English (or even in a Latin alphabet). I believe this problem can be resolved by someone familiar with the works. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article is fundamentally POV, in that the quotes are there to advance one opinion on Macedonism. The sources cited are not cited in such a way as would permit checking (no page numbers, no indication of which edition of the newspaper mentioned). I also share the concern that these are just random quotes which happen to use the term; they aren't particularly well expressed. If any of the quotes is of real historical significance then it could go in a general article about Macedonia. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes properly sourced in English. If they are, I support keeping it to collect backing quotes from Wikipedia, although I realize we'll get some spillover from the POV arguments in Macedonism. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Malina

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Malina
Unnotable vanity-press author. 121a0012 04:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. Only 67 unique Google hits, none of which are from truly mainstream publications. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. No presence of American author "Alexander Malina" either on Amazon.com or U.S. Library of Congress. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Daniel townsend

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Daniel townsend
Not notable. Google results indicate that there's a solo singer/songwriter in Tasmania with this name, as well as a doctor in Boston, and several other people through history. None of them is particularly noteworthy. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 13:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless evidence of notability provided and quote sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Harivansh Rai Bachchan

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Harivansh Rai Bachchan
No quotes. There's a Wikipedia page for this person, and a fair number of Google results including IMDB, so if someone were willing to hunt down some quotes from this person, they'd warrant having a page here. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added; concur with LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 13:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with LrdChaos and UDScott. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:27, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:21, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
Page for a single quote, with no real content to speak of (except for a mention of some attribution to Mark Twain). —LrdChaos (talk) 18:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 regular-user deletes; 1 improperly signed delete from new anon discounted; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've left a note to the article creator about how they might add this quote properly to Wikiquote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:34, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. -Anonymous 11:25, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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wuthering heights?
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Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (2 November {22 October O.S. 1734 - 26 September 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone became famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, in 1775 Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. There he founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people had entered Kentucky by following the route marked by Boone.

Quotes

 * Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.
 * As quoted in the opening lines of "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke" in The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke (1784) by John Filson

 * Situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we experienced. I often observed to my brother, You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns.
 * As quoted in "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon; containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke" in The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke (1784) by John Filson

 * I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
 * As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 65

 * I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.
 * As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 301

 * Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
 * As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 302

 * Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
 * As quoted in Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993) by John Mack Faragher p. 302

Quotes about Boone

 * Ain't nobody ever cut 5 centers, lessen' it were Dan'l Boone.
 * A character in the film Sergeant York, commenting on the prospects of Alvin York achieving his goals in a contest of marksmanship.

 * Of all men, saving Sylla, the man-slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky Of the great names which in our faces stare, The General Boon, back-woodsman of Kentucky, Was happiest amongst mortals any where; For killing nothing but a bear or buck, he Enjoyed the lonely vigorous, harmless days Of his old age in wilds of deepest maze.
 * Lord Byron in Don Juan, Canto the Eighth (1823)

 * Westward lay the march of American Empire. Within thirty years of the establishment of the Union nine new states had been formed in the Mississippi valley, and two in the borders of New England. As early as 1769 men like Daniel Boone had pushed their way into the Kentucky country, skirmishing with the Indians. But the main movement over the mountains began during the War of Independence. The migration of the eighteenth century took two directions: the advance westward towards the Ohio, with its settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the occupation of the north-west forest regions, the fur-traders’ domain, beyond Lake Erie. The colonisation of New England and the eastern coastline of America had been mainly the work of powerful companies, aided by the English Crown or by feudal proprietors with chartered rights. But here in the new lands of the West any man with an axe and a rifle could carve for himself a rude frontier home. By 1790 there were thirty-five thousand settlers in the Tennessee country, and double that number in Kentucky. By 1800 there were a million Americans west of the mountain ranges of the Alleghenies. From these new lands a strong, self-reliant Western breed took its place in American life.
 * Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958), pp. 102-103

 * The Indian-fighting frontiersmen and the "valiant" settlers in their circled covered wagons are the iconic images of that identity. The continued popularity of, and respect for, the genocidal sociopath Andrew Jackson is another indicator. Actual men such as Robert Rogers, Daniel Boone, John Sevier, and David Crockett, as well as fictitious ones created by James Fenimore Cooper and other best-selling writers, call to mind D. H. Lawrence's "myth of the essential white American"-that the "essential American soul" is a killer.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

 * Daniel Boone was a man, Yes, a big man! With an eye like an eagle And as tall as a mountain was he! Daniel Boone was a man, Yes, a big man! He was brave, he was fearless And as tough as a mighty oak tree!
 * Lyrics by Vera Matson to the theme for the television series Daniel Boone (1964-1970).

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Nathalia Crane

Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane (11 August 1913 – 22 October 1998) was a poet and novelist who became famous as a child prodigy after the publication of her first book of poetry at age 10. Her poetry was first published in The New York Sun when she was only 9 years old, the paper unaware that she was a child. She later became a professor of English at San Diego State University.

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 * Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.
 * Impromptu poem, made at the request of reporters, printed in "Markham v. Prodigy" TIME magazine (23 November 1925)

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

 * Full text online at the Internet Archive

 * Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.
 * "The Janitor's Boy"

 * He'll carry me off, I know that he will, For his hair is exceedingly red; And the only thing that occurs to me Is to dutifully shiver in bed.
 * "The Janitor's Boy"

 * I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
 * "The Flathouse Roof"

 * Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.
 * "The Vestal"

 * Finally she faltered; Saw at last, forsooth, Every gaudy color Is a bit of truth. Then the gates were opened; Miracles were seen; That instructed damsel Donned a gown of green; Wore it in a churchyard, All arrayed with care; And a painted rainbow Shone above her there.
 * "The Vestal"

 * In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?
 * "The Blind Girl"

 * A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.  They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.
 * "Prescience"

 * The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.
 * "Tomorrow"

 * The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
 * "Tomorrow"

 * When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years — Revisions of the ruby and the rose.
 * "Tomorrow"

 * The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.  Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.
 * "The Symbols"

 * The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.
 * "The Symbols"

 * Cloud-made mountains towered, Beckoning to me; Visionary triremes Talked about the sea...

Lava Lane and Other Poems (1925)

 * Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.
 * "The First Reformer"

The Singing Crow And Other Poems (1926)

 * You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. Wikiquote-logo.svg QOTD 2007·11·01 Sound file
 * "The Colors" (These lines were actually created by the author Stephen Crane).

Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

 * Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower — With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.
 * "Proposals"

 * The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.
 * "Proposals"

 * Treating the sword blade the same as the staff, Turning the chariot wheel into chaff. Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall, Building a sand pile to counter each fall. Yielding to nothing — not even the rose, The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.
 * "The Dust"

 * Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre; Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls—the Mosque of St. Sophia. And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls, They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.
 * "Our Lovers"

 * He found the harem filled with rocking maids Surrendered to the orgies of the sob.
 * "Tadmore"

 * Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
 * "Tadmore"

 * The rose has told In one simplicity. That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.
 * "Tadmore"

 * Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.
 * "Tadmore"

The Wings of Lead

 * First published in 1927, when Crane was 14, this poem won first prize in a contest to commemorate Charles Lindbergh's crossing of the Atlantic.

 * The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull; They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull. It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red:  "You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?

 * A thousand ardent oilers swung the long spout 'twixt their nods, And tried to glimpse a meaning in the challenge of the gods. And then one night there landed on a Mineola swale A plane that looked like pewter, with a carrier of mail.  Its wings were tinged like tea-box skins, each truss of shadow gray, Its cabin but an alcove slung beneath a metal ray.  The Spirit of St. Louis was inscribed upon the lee; It came from out a province that had never seen the sea.

 * A single-motored miracle, a lead mine on each flank; Below a shadow swept and awed the hundred-fathom bank.

 * And the eyes of all look upward seeing sign-word drawing nigh, The stony wings of Egypt coming back across the sky; We hear the clinking tamborine of Miriam anew; We believe in every miracle since Lindbergh flew the blue —  The wonder of the long draw when the bowstring is a thread — The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead.

Swear By the Night and Other Poems (1936)

 * Full text online at the Internet Archive

 * Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.
 * "Imperfection"

Quotes about Crane

 * A year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all — Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose first volume of verse, The Janitor's Boy, was heralded by critics to be a work of genius. Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses. One poem began with the nebular hypothesis and ended with prohibition; others cantered with a Eugene Fieldian humor; still others coldly glowed with the passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them.
 * "Markham v. Prodigy" TIME magazine (23 November 1925)

 * It seems impossible to me that a girl so immature could have written these poems. They are beyond the powers of a girl of twelve. The sophisticated viewpoint of sex … knowledge of history and archeology found in these pages place them beyond the reach of any juvenile mind.
 * Edwin Markham, as quoted in TIME magazine (23 November 1925)

 * Nathalia sort of sings her poems to herself — they come into being that way. She reads Kipling constantly, and Conan Doyle is her favorite. The only poet she likes is Longfellow, but she doesn't enthuse over him. She likes wild, imaginative tales. When she finds a word she likes or doesn't understand, she looks it up in every available dictionary and studies every possible meaning and use for it...
 * Crane's father, as quoted in TIME magazine (23 November 1925)

 * Nathalia can explain practically every line she has ever written; I have heard her uncertain treble clarify passages that have puzzled erudite authors. No poet that ever lived delighted in amassing such curious, half-forgotten sounds; not even Francis Thompson had so great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed.
 * Louis Untermeyer as quoted in TIME magazine (23 November 1925)

 * Some of the critics explained the work by insisting that the child was some sort of medium, an instrument unaware of what was played upon it; others, considering the book a hoax, scorned the fact that any child could have written verses so smooth in execution and so remarkable in spiritual overtones. … The appeal of such lines is not that they have been written by a child but by a poet.
 * Louis Untermeyer

 * I remember that Bob had bought several books during the trip, and they were in sight. One was a collection of verse by a talented child named Nathalia Crane, then making a sizable splash in the American literary world.
 * Harold Preece commenting about Robert E. Howard's regard for Crane's poetry in The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert E. Howard (1976) by Glenn Lord p. 95

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title: User talk:Nholliday14