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People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #first #how #jokes #killed

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. ↗

— Huston Smith

#art #difficult #difficulty #eases #ennobling

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#beauty #distinctions #entry #find #front

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exhaustion #his #history #man #possibilities

If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsover. ↗

— David Letterman

#i #identifiable #personality

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ↗

— Confucius

#music #power-of-music #art

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it. ↗

— Eugene Levy

#actor #face #film #got #history

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach. ↗

— Jamal Lewis

#backs #being #coach #coordinator #feared

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#beings #forget #human #human beings #often