#cause

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admire #again #america #avenue #barack

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #deaths #diarrhea #just #leading

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#also #because #believe #how #move

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#children #i #i can #life #live

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#because #direction #fortunate #gave #help

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#because #clothes #communicating #could #i

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#because #business #creative #creative process #enjoy

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested. ↗

— Richard Gere

#best #compassion #dalai #dalai lama #disinterested