You can read this lyric from the song “Trenchtown Rock” (1971) by Bob Marley, and additional quotes from Marley, in B…
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Editor's note: This week we are revisiting the "amazing fact" from Oct. 15, 2012, that kicked off this series and…
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You can find this quote from a Nobel lecture given in Oslo, Norway (2001), and others by Kofi Annan, in Bartlett’s…
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You can read this quote, and others from Harriet Tubman, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote…
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You can read this quote from the book My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and others by Frederick Douglass, in Bartlett…
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You can read this lyric from the song “Everything Is Everything” (1998), and more quotes by Lauryn Hill, in Bartlett’…
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You can read this lyric from the song “Hey Ya!” (2003), by Andre 3000 and Outkast, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black…
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You can read this quote, and more from Dave Chappelle, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote…
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