#elves

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#being #development #entertainment #inner-city #intellectual

We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#distribution #everyone #express #get #google

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#away #begin #democracy #learn #ourselves

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#ever #freedom #history #making #people

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#attention #bound #care #determined #hold

The gods help them that help themselves. ↗

— Aesop

#help #them #themselves

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. ↗

— David Bailey

#few #gogh #like #only #themselves

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#become #lead #lives #more #pay

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#enough #even #few #few men #fewer