Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.
Raheem DeVaughn
Recitation: by Male by Female
I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
Jesmyn Ward
MeWriteOverUniversityImprove
I'm really happy in my life.
Melissa McCarthy
LifeHappyMy LifeReally
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
John Lithgow
LifeMistakesOvercomingProblemHim
I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.
John Hickenlooper
PurposeBelieveThinkBetterMore
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.
Spike Jonze
StartTryingYouEmotionsPerson
I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.
Rodrigo Duterte
GodFaithReligionDeepYouFollow
I live my life one day at a time.
Ruth Duccini
LifeLiveTimeDayMy LifeOne Day
I've honed in on three questions that I ask myself when I'm evaluating where to spend my time. Is this something that I'm passionate about, is it purposeful, and will I have impact? And if I can't answer 'yes' to all three questions, then I have to sit back and ask, 'Is it really that important?'
Mindy Grossman
TimeMyselfImpactQuestionsBack
Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.
Jon Porter
HomeCommunityWorldImmigration
Classes were incredibly boring. I took to dreaming. They took to punishing me. I was always working off punishments for not doing what I was supposed to do.
Diana Rigg
MeDoingBoringAlwaysDreamingOff
I have worked my way up in the food industry being strong and steady about who I am as a person, first and foremost, as a chef and professional, and certainly as a woman.
Christina Tosi
FoodWomanI AmChefStrongPerson
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Bob Woodward
WisdomPeopleStoryTelevisionNever
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