#asking

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#assistance #friend #help #man #neither

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#asking #because #front #going #i

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#difficulties #face #i #keep #most

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#answered #asking #been #during #fifty

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. ↗

— Tom Morello

#apartment #asking #building #estate #family

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick. ↗

— Randy Moss

#being #bill #brady #coached #happy

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#asking #complete #film #i #lot

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#asking #being #gives #how #person