#hit

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#bonds #brethren #case #denial #despair

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people. ↗

— Steve Mitchell

#downplay #everyone #exists #great #mistrust

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick. ↗

— Josh Groban

#ever #funeral #good #hit #me

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. ↗

— Moby

#get #guys #i #kind #like

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#black #mistrust #people #racism #white

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#boy #easy #father #first #generation

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

#change #cow #day #dead #find

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#around #early #food #hit #i

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#had #houston #i #me #meet

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric