I grew up hearing, ‘You’re pretty for a black girl,’ ‘You speak well for a black girl…’ I was really bookish. I was reading all of the time. I had big glasses. Jessica Williams Read Quote
The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for. Lela Loren Read Quote
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. Raymond Moody Read Quote
I think it’s normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you’re going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents, people you see every week. That’s the way you have to think. You can’t think of them as legends. When you see someone on court, you have to treat every opponent the same way. Alexander Zverev Read Quote
The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi’s ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India. Naveen Patnaik Read Quote
You’re gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it’s totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it’s not in the long run. Pete Wentz Read Quote