#met

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#blind #boy #died #else #everybody

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#been #easy #effort #experience #find

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#even #nothing #own #person #power

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#bestow #heart #justice #nor #right

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. ↗

— Roger McGough

#became #because #carrying #different #easier

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#anything #buzz #change #drop #exhausting

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ↗

— George McGovern

#bad #just #know #our time #polite

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too. ↗

— George McGovern

#caused #divorces #every #few #her