#cp

I blame Mother Nature two-faced bitch and Father Time bloody bastard .Yep those misogynistic killjoys have cut off my pocket money and left me grounded.With those two authoritarian heavyweights ganging up what chance does a woman have I aks you ↗

— Kathy Lette

#nature #nip #nip-and-tucp #nip-tuck #tuck

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. ↗

— Alan Moore

#roses #life

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #existence #life #naacp #volunteer

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ↗

— Gail Collins

#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#conversation #delilah-mcphee #humor #jules #paying-attention

Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#jacqueline-patricks #life-lessons #maturity #perscpective #life

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black community #community #naacp #only #republicans

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#candidate #convention #foundation #going #having