#ck

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William "Sticky" Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others. ↗

— Allen West

#appreciate #because #born #commitment #fact

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. ↗

— Cornel West

#cheap #clever #distraction #gimmicks #mass

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. ↗

— Cornel West

#brown #catastrophe #complex #discourse #ghettos

Black people have been working hard for decades. ↗

— Cornel West

#black #decades #hard #people #working

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. ↗

— Cornel West

#because #black #excited #i #i am

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. ↗

— Cornel West

#act #actions #believe #black #criticism

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#clinical #diagnosis #disease #experience #heredity

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. ↗

— Elizabeth Lowell

#forgiveness #love #forgiveness

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing. ↗

— Eric West

#been #few #her #honored #i

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great. ↗

— Shaun White

#away #baggy #because #black #convinced