"I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay."

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Source : "Side Benefit of Prop 8’s Passage: Celebrities Busting Out of Closet" by Party Ben, www.motherjones.com. November 16, 2008.

Wanda Sykes

#Gay Quotes #Black Quotes #Proud Quotes

“Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.”
“My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.”
“I'm just blessed that I was able to have guys around me that had some of the same goals. The man above gave me a gift and he gave me friends and a mentor that can help me reach my goal and reach my potential. And we all had the same goal, so it wasn't hard for us to get, you know, off track because we all wanted the same thing.”
“Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.”
“In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.”

Source : "Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette" by Jules Germain Cloquet, (Vol. I, p. 24), 1836.
“If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.”
“[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.”
“There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.”

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