If you could sit and talk to anyone alive or from the past, who would it be and

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   SEXYLADYDEEposted 12 years ago

   If you could sit and talk to anyone alive or from the past, who would it be and what would you ask?
   
   The three people I would love to speak to are Harriet Tubman, Martin Luthor King and Nelson Mandela. I would ask them all the same things. Where did you get the courage and fortitude from?

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   kschimmelposted 12 years ago

   I would want to talk to my great-grandmother Bush.  She raised more children than I did and I know she'd be full of wisdom.

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      SEXYLADYDEEposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      My great grandmother watched me when I was very young. After she passed I learned she had 16 children. 4 in each of her 4 marriages, remarrying after the death of each husband. I can think of so many things to talk to her about like her strength.

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   safiq ali patelposted 12 years ago

   Here here. I like the people you would speak to. I'd like to speak to Mahatma Gandhi and I would ask How does one leverage political and cultural change where it is most needed. I'd ask him how he'd meet those tasks of feeding, clothing and calming the world.

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      SEXYLADYDEEposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Wonderful addition to my list.

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   Any Other Voiceposted 12 years ago

   I would love to talk to Charles Darwin to see what he really thought about evolution as opposed to listening to quotes and ideas taken out of context.

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   Weekend Readerposted 12 years ago

   On long drives or boring commutes, I chat with either Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin.
   I find myself explaining the world that's developed in the last two hundred years, and sometimes apologizing for the way the country's evolved. I have trouble explaining automobiles and computers, even though Franklin is delighted with how his electricity turned out.
   Doesn't everyone do this kind of thing?

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   getitriteposted 12 years ago

   Michael Jackson.  I would ask him to tell me his side of the story.  I would like to know why he had his skin lightened, and his nose done...and why he was sexually ambivalent...and why he really hung out with children.

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      SEXYLADYDEEposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting. As a woman of color it hurt me deeply to see how truly as such a brilliant talent, his self hatred was no less terrible than a young girl who cuts herself. I would ask him about the process he went thru for extraordinary music.

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