#ere

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever. ↗

— Jeb Bradley

#i #immigration #need #people #saying

A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on. “Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?” - Faith, Witch Devotions ↗

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#paranormal #paranormal-romance #pnr #supernatural #vampire

A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#servanthood #faith

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#energy #i #merely #pout #some

We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness. ↗

— Vijay Prashad

#difference #faith

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi. ↗

— George Catlin

#character #different #enter #felt #manner

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest. ↗

— Frank Knight

#difference #differences #goods #higher #low

A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved. ↗

— Carrie Vaughn

#werewolves #family

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#belong #candidate #different #groups #honest

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. ↗

— Margaret Clarkson

#sovereignty-of-god #family