I don’t think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other. John Lewis Gaddis Read Quote
On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly. Maggie Gyllenhaal Read Quote
I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn’t compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it’s my personality that these designers were drawn to. Lou Doillon Read Quote
Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he’s the president of all races. John Lewis Read Quote
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. Wesley Morris Read Quote
Golf in Indonesia has something else to offer: ways to make you forget the last four hours and take away the aches. Nearly every course has a spa – hot tub, cold tub, sauna and massage. Raymond Bonner Read Quote
I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me. Lupe Fiasco Read Quote
I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don’t have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people. Victor LaValle Read Quote
