#cog

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#greatest #i #lie #like #lost

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#consciousness #dealing #further #lesbian #lives

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #bored #each #get #hand

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#astonishment #egypt #exercised #fascination #hesitation

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#allowances #another #beyond #defects #eye

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#addictive #families #never #our #own

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people. ↗

— John Lynch

#another #differences #every #ideology #issue

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#really #recognize #right #right and wrong #wrong

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#being #hate #i #lose #must