Jeremiah Wright Quotes

In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

Jeremiah Wright

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GreatPeopleWorldColorBlackWay

My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.

John Harsanyi

MathematicsChildParentsMeLiving

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

John Jay Hooker

MoneyEffortMeProcessCorruption

It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LoveMeSomeoneYouLookPhone

We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.

Sonny Perdue

BelieveEveryoneLawsWhoNeedsOur

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

Stevie Nicks

LoveWomenMenYourselfRoadYou

No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

Russell Smith

MusicArtSurpriseConservativeHere

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

Mary Lou Jepsen

TimeArtWorldTraveledEarlyKnow

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

Mary MacLane

HeartQualityWomanSoulMeStrong

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

Joshua Ostrander

BestMeThinkBittersweetJustIdea

I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax dollars.

Josh Hawley

GovernmentI AmViewTaxDeserve

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Donald Judd

SimpleSayingSomeoneSeeingCount

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

Colm Toibin

PeaceIdeasLongYouGoExist

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