#imp

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#argue #hug #just #love #means

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#cultural #editorials #free #freedom #impose

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#ceiling #dreams #impossible #more #our

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives! ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#because #churches #dare #enough #i

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#children #divine #everyone #goodness #hearts

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#cried #dark #everyday #face #father

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #baseball history #black #history #i

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name? ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#any #front #had #hard #i

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced