#lack

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#board #coaches #dime #dozen #get

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. ↗

— Clifford Longley

#cricket #english #even #henry #john

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#automation #besides #black #only

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#close #each #emotionally #men #other

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #bored #each #get #hand

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #feeling #felt #fine #gay

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#becomes #been #black #consciously #each