"I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters."

-- Mary McLeod Bethune

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #White Quotes

“The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.”
“I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.”
“The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.”
“Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.”
“Many boyfriends or close male friends seem so different when they are by themselves, as opposed to when they are with a bunch of other guys. I think it has to do with the desperate desire on the part of guys to be seen as a "real guy" - a real man, a man's man.”

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“Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?”
“I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.”
“The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasÃ© eyes.”

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