#make

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ancestry #black #drop #makes #you

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

Civilization is what makes you sick. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#makes #sick #you

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#macintosh #makes #microsoft #products

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children. ↗

— Susan George

#cost #educate #families #make #pay

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#any #cute #divine #divine love #drawn

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#border patrol #cargo #container #continue #destruction

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry. ↗

— Martin Landau

#comedians #cry #good #later #laugh