#ai

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#environment #i #i was born #nation #officially

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect. ↗

— Johann Most

#arbitrary #articles #contention #deed #effect

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#daily #daily lives #dependent #incapable #little

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#beauty #dark #every #mist #out

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#each #even #explains #fear #flames

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that. ↗

— John Terry

#captain #choice #england #envisage #first

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#die #feel #hadn #i #lived

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#arriving #because #begin #bird #dragons

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#balance #because #between #bollocks #carefully