"I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore."

-- Ryan Lochte

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Black Quotes

“I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.”
“If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.”
“When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.”

Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.199, Macmillan
“I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.”
“From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.”

Source : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.233, Gracewing Publishing
“Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesnâ€™t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.”
“When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.”

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