#lack

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. ↗

— James Baldwin

#important #people #reason #think #white

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#bottom #huge #sea #surprise

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#float #formless #intangible #interpreters #lack

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#deal #god #jesus #more #people

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#black #country #great #hispanic #just

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories. ↗

— Mac Davis

#chance #eight #elvis #had #his

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#aware #built #centuries #environment #everyone

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#believed #challenges #faith #i #lack

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline. ↗

— Sean Astin

#determination #discipline #easing #far #focus