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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#country #difficult #i #just #military

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#challenge #come #comes #deal #defense

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#culture #customers #industry #much #reactions

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#best #both #cultures #east #i

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#because #dates #did #everything #felt

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#felt #fit #grateful #hawaii #here

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#end #enjoyment #enriched #every #good

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#convincing #face #felt #i #into