Carter G. Woodson Quotes

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

The only thing Oriental about me, is my face.

Racial discourses and theories are socially constructed ... but repudiating race theory does not make it disappear in politics. Race matters ... because it functions as a marker and an anchor to establish and repudiate identity, status and position ... Races exist because racism exists.

I can always tell the demographic that will probably recognize me - white dudes, sort of skater-y hip hop white dudes, and working class black dudes.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

Nature abhors a moron.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.