#la

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#siblings #slavery #family

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#better #coordination #development #effective #efforts

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#england #feeble #heart #i #king

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#how #human #interaction #just #kids

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#always #bound #considered #down #even

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#fan #grown #had #i #large

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#abstract #displacement #feels #moment #off

You can't blame gravity for falling in love. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#falling #falling in love #gravity #love #you

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#autonomy #been #brief #close #family