#gene

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#believe #benefited #descendants #difficult #gene

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#general #people #poorer #troubled

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#darkness #dissipate #education #general #mind

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#as far as #blood #concerned #continued #day

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#bad idea #bit #cringe #especially #everyone

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#generation #good #reason #seasoned #some

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step? ↗

— Orlando Jones

#big #different #figuring #friends #generation