#coast

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#city #coast #got #gulf #lands

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#coastal #estuaries #harbors #meet #places

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#again #areas #attention #coastal #country

Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it's the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#baby #coaster #emotional #emotionally #ever

But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#beginning #coast #east #east coast #fans

It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#boring #hasn #life #rollercoaster

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#agree #before #clean #clean water #coast

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#feel #i #i can #i do #more

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#change #coastlines #conflict #create #global

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #coast #done #east #east coast