#latin

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#death #difficulty #had #i #mother

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on. ↗

— Celine Dion

#grammys #i #oscars #platinum #records

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal. ↗

— Enya

#fans #i #i can #lot #much

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#attitude #isolating #method #order #our

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#categories #color #difficult #fascinating #find

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#doors #follow #i #i see #latin

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#america #asia #brought #countries #crises