#himself

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#black #defend #defense #hard #himself

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#answer #demanding #engaged #great #himself

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#bible #brought #down #god #himself

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. ↗

— Edward Everett

#advance #dispositions #engaged #fell #force

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ↗

— Mark Twain

#against #being #cannot #chances #deceive

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now. ↗

— David Brainerd

#before #called #designed #god #had

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#effect #enhanced #experience #grounded #hard

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#arafat #ask #contradicts #even #every

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas. ↗

— Jon Brion

#developed #edge #generating #himself #ideas