#ed

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands. ↗

— Billy West

#coming #even #i #loner #music

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. ↗

— Kanye West

#black family #family #food #hate #i

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it. ↗

— Dominic West

#anything #beautiful #customs #fbi #glamorous

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground. ↗

— Dominic West

#being #bored #comfort #dad #disapproving

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#east #forgive #grit #having #mistakes

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#awakening #does #him #love #religious

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. ↗

— Mae West

#discarded #else #given #lovers #second

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. ↗

— Mae West

#cultivate #curves #dangerous #may #won