I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
Gordon Parks
Recitation: by Male by Female
I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.
Jesmyn Ward
FamilyMotherHomeThoughtSitting
As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'
Michael Schur
PeopleFeelPlanYouSometimesMore
Taxes are never popular.
Luis Videgaray Caso
NeverTaxesPopular
I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.
Johnny Galecki
LifeHomeTimeMeToughSibling
Trust in yourself.
Claudia Black
TrustYourself
We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.
Boris Johnson
TurnEuropeCannotOurPartBacks
Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.
Annaleigh Ashford
MusicSummerSheHerUnderratedPop
I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
William Steig
PeopleThinkFeelNeverReasonUp
All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.
Pico Iyer
WorldHandsFeelingGoNothingTry
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
Sylvia Earle
GoodTimeBlueEnvironmentalFish
We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.
Peter Camejo
TaxResponsibleFairUnitedMust
My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50.
Sharon Van Etten
TimeGoalBecomeTherapist
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