#eve

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#also #because #believe #how #move

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#developing #developing world #difference #funding #government

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#business #business school #computer #computer science #development

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#babies #false #grieve #loss #love

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#i #icon #never #somewhat #thought

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#dreams #life #revenge

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#appetite #cultivated #demand #every #fresh

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ↗