"I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence."

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Source : Source: www.elle.com

Emily Raboteau

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.”
“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.49, Vanderbilt University Press
“One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
“Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.”
“Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.”
“When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.”
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”
“They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.”

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