#lack

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#clearly #gone #knows #leadership #men

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #box #choosing #intellectual #label

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ↗

— Richard Steele

#beauty #detestable #lack #modesty #nothing

to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem #poetry #life

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#country #england #famine #find #machines

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#black and white #city #congregation #every #great

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien! ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #considered #first #i #jackson

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#lack #realize #wisdom

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. ↗

— Peter Steele

#always #bands #been #black #black sabbath

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england