#bra

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#brazil #nation #second #world

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#dignity #elegant #every #explored #further

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need. ↗

— Richard Gere

#bravery #emotional #i #need #show

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#embrace #i #just #me #part

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#brains #determining #else #inescapable #just

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#along #between #could #find #found

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#another #birthday #celebrating #only #part

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#bravery #day #embodied #how #i

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #democracy #democratically #elected #era