#ak

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#hang #let go #lot #strength #take

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#more #probably #rock #rock and roll #roll

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#blackness #character #christianity #conservatism #defined

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#done #good #i #makes #policy

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#go #got #hang #i #into

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#dream #dying #get #into #major

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #black community #community #constituency #democratic