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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#begins #describe #distance #how #i

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#i #original #security #signed #social

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#allison #bicycle #commuting #finished #grades

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#bicycle #called #customers #delivering #first

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#dawned #day #every #excitement #fresh

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#best #group #lure #our #photograph

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#am #another #being #distance #every

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%. ↗

— Will Smith

#else #gives #good #good job #hard

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? ↗

— Will Smith

#come #doing #doing the right thing #father #fatherhood

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean. ↗

— Will Smith

#day #feet #find #get #going