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The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at least since the early nineteenth century when 3 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

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Henry Louis Gates
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Category: Relationship

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
  • 2. Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
  • 3. I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
  • 2. You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project and now that has become me which is an amazing blessing.
  • 3. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

3 Anger

  • 1. Another night I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
  • 2. Your anger is a gift.
  • 3. Growing up in a particular neighborhood growing up in a working-class family not having much money all of those things fire you and can give you an edge can give you an anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 2. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 3. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I hate vacations. If you can build buildings why sit on the beach?
  • 2. What's fascinating about D.C. the exteriors are these elaborate structures this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework and then you go inside and it's crap-looking – apart from the White House which is beautiful.
  • 3. We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
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