#me

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#before #black #ever #got #hold

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. ↗

— Maynard Jackson

#best #changing #how #live #means

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#disappointment #snow #beauty

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#american #black #dignity #i #i am

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#bus #children #come #crocodiles #elephants

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#gospel #in print #just #just because #mean

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#audience #career #doubt #films #get

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#film #i #i think #like #medium

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#huge #i #mean #movies #upbringing

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#conditioning #feminism #inequality #misogyny #stereotypes