Cornel West Quotes

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Cornel West

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FearFatherMenManBrotherFree

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

Jeremy Miller

DayMeChefSmallRestaurantWant

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

John Ortberg

WorkGiftChurchGoKnowUs

Effective action is always unjust.

Maya Angelou

ActionAlwaysUnjustEffective

It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes.

Amy Morin

YourselfThoughtsNegativePotential

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Sophocles

LifeLovePainOne WordUsWeight

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles

YouLookFindGoWill

I am scared of becoming a mother.

Liv Tyler

MotherI AmScaredBecomingAm

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

LL Cool J

LifeFatherWomenBeautifulBest

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Lois Lowry

WordsWorldRealityBadChoiceBeen

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

Jordan Peterson

TruthBestUncertaintyYouSayTool

Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.

Don Kardong

TeamProblemsShowing UpTryingLate

I don't have it in for critics, and I never have.

Diana Rigg

NeverCritics

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