#hem

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. ↗

— Eric Liu

#equality #force #idea #in the end #law

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves. ↗

— Eric Liu

#believes #bush #cannot #clarity #days

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#empowered #excited #feel #fight #kind

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them. ↗

— Blake Lively

#crush #find #had #i #later

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#arm #because #capable #even #i

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#here #many #moved #music #music scene

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. ↗

— Titus Livius

#freedom #had #king #old #over

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#neither #nor #our #remedies #them

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business. ↗