#ny

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#anything #before #being #ever #genealogy

Food won't go down when you know your mother didn't want you, never liked to feed you, always hated you in her rooms. You were wrong to clutch and swallow and move your mouth. You must not be flushed, layered in fat or ripe from meat or she will despise your sight. Your skeleton cries, "I make no demands, I am ashamed of my needs, I am unworthy. I'm aware of those more deserving, those with prior and urgent claims to food." Skeleton says, "My safety is in slightness, my pride is denial. My victory is no gluttony, no guilt. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#jenny-holzer #food

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#challenges #could #gay #gay marriage #heterosexual

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#cancer #control #deny #i #i think

You can be great only if it is your destiny. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#great #only #you #your

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#believe #commits #good #problems #process

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. ↗

— David Geffen

#already #apathy #colleagues #friends #growing

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#be happy #call #everybody #good #happy