#middle

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano. ↗

— Teena Marie

#beautiful thing #dream #head #i #melody

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ↗

— Don Marquis

#always #ever #feel #good #man

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#away #get #gift #hard #middle

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#east #going #how #know #middle

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both. ↗

— Brian Celio

#finger #hand #hands #i #instead

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ↗

— Steve McQueen

#city #earth #i #middle #nowhere

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becoming #class #great #great achievements #history

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#been #caught #fights #food #inability

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#human nature #middle #nature #stand #thing