The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don’t wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women. Clint Smith Read Quote
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood. Irwin Rose Read Quote
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It’s where we learn to share; it’s where we learn to argue without offending. It’s just too critical to let go, as we’ve been so blithely doing. Michael Pollan Read Quote
There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job. Jesse Kellerman Read Quote
I’m just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends. Maria Sharapova Read Quote
We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Read Quote
To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It’s always a bit excruciating because there’s always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way. Jesse Harris Read Quote
Don’t get me wrong – I’m not against makeup. If I could manage looking like ‘me’ in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I’d sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me. Leandra Medine Read Quote
If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don’t think I’d have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others. Amanda Palmer Read Quote
