#mm

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#bind #common #common sense #heed #heritage

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#comment #encounters #family #friends #group

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#back #community #face #identity #into

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#between #black #caught #communities #could

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. ↗

— Kate Millett

#identity #longer #mute #responsibility #say

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#experienced #impossible #menace #people #rationalism

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ↗

— Charles Mingus

#complicated #creativity #making #simple

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#again #communicated #confidence #emotion #enlightenment

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#classic #door #embarrassed #emma #everyone

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful