#elves

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact. ↗

— Barney Ross

#coming #get #got #her #intact

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#best #children #contained #free #geek

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#crowded #defeat #ourselves #shouts #street

You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#care #forget #give #gotta #happy

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#breaks #competitor #competitors #drive #find

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#driven #enormous #excel #good #great

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

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#different #doing #down #into #just

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#be true #conservative #democrat #different #different kind