#lea

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account. ↗

— Dave Obey

#account #bank #bank account #based #burned

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#dirt #down #drama #faces #happiness

Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#away #before #dream #had #know

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#communication #feel #form #go #i

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#being #communication #could #feel #form

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#become #class #contractor #every #father

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#finding #girlfriend #leaving #like #losing

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath? ↗

— Phil Ochs

#breath #defending #does #friendless #leave

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them. ↗

— William Odom

#civil #civil war #clear #falls #going

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. ↗

— William Odom

#arab #because #bin #destroy #however