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Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#assassinated #became #being #black #consider

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#doing #going #home #i #lot

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#bring #cheese #country #different #different kinds

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#blend #breakfast #disappointment #episodes #even

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#although #couple #episodes #feature #feature film

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#awesome #backgrounds #come #different #different ages

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#believers #both #dark #different #different religions

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#anybody #behind #city #going #great