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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. — Malcolm X

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well. — John D'Agata

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring. — Leopold Sedar Senghor

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last. — George R R Martin

What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it; — Wendell Berry

She didn't put her finger to the wind; she became the wind. — Gloria Steinem

Imagination is a glorious wonder. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott

A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday. — Johan Norberg

The law isn't merciful. — Cate Campbell Beatty

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991. — Earl Campbell

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears — Steven Runciman

Fear cannot be trusted ... It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest. — David Gemmell

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. — Maya Angelou

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. — Chuck Hagel

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do. — Buck Brannaman

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me
Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you — Eminem

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. — Sydney J. Harris

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong

I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game — Nas

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.' — Felix Dennis

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number. — Orison Swett Marden

Any spot for which a man's forebears have bled and died will forever be his homeland. — James A. Michener

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy. — Selma Lagerlof

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll. — Ken Follett

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight. — Guillermo Del Toro

. . . human beings . . . [are] divided into "book benders" and "non-book benders." The former are happier. — Fausto Brizzi