#ld

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#could #go #i #just #lots

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#competition #competitors #during #harold #i

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #died #disappeared #earliest #experience

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#child #disillusion #illusion #love is #parent

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#had #jesus #where #would #written

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

#anything #apart #ask #back #build

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #art #be a man #beauty #beings

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#certain point #certain way #design #how #life

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#being #believe #believed #happened #i