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• My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I’ve got to make things better for my son and for my tribe

  Bob Teague

  Pride, Son, Men

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• It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Years, Important, Plant

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• Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Children, Powerful, Home

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• I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

  Horace

  Order, Poetry, Submit

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• Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vote, Patriot, Throat

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”

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• My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another – because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.

  Eboo Patel

  Communication, Diversity, May

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• If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.

  Samuel Francis Smith

  Children, Humility, Illustration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 123, 1895.

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• It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dark, Albums, Costa Rica

  "Iron Maiden: Flight 666". Documentary, Music, 2009.

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• I hope through The L Word to become an honorary member of the gay tribe. I cherish the thought that some young girl or woman somewhere may one night turn on the television and for the first time ever see her life represented - not as an isolated incident but as a multiplicity. Her overwhelming fear may have been that she might never find her tribe, she might never find love and now she knows that they are both out there waiting for her.

  Jennifer Beals

  Girl, Gay, Night

  Speech at L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Women's Night, April 17, 2004.

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• The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

  Conan O'Brien

  Native American, Marijuana, Eagles

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• Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Thinking, Soul

  "Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born". Book by Denise G. Shekerjian, 1990.

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• A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

  Phife Dawg

  Mean, Growth, Sound

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• The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Dream, Groups, Woven

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• The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Suffering, Prince Of Peace

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.

  Peter Rollins

  Religious, Expression, Church

  Peter Rollins (2015). “The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Hippie, Community

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love, Inspire, Soul

  Nathaniel Branden (1985). “Psychology of romantic love”, Bantam

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• The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

  Garrison Keillor

  Rain, Fire, Religion

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• To reach your heart, as every indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must first remember your Divine Mother... Your Mother is alive and very much conscious... Earth is not a rock, she has a name and a personality in the cosmos. And believe me, she knows your name.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mother, Believe, Heart

  Drunvalo Melchizedek (2008). “Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light”, p.4, Weiser Books

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• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, African Tribes, Missionary

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157, 1957.

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• There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.

  Simon Hoggart

  Nhs, Reform, Use

  "Why the American right make me sick" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.

  William Butler Yeats

  Air, Doors, Southern

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Sick, Honor

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.361

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• I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Space, Darkness

  D. H. Lawrence (2004). “Sons and Lovers”, p.191, online-ebooks.info

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  "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

  Sherman Alexie

  Black And White, Thinking, Two

  "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007.

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