#or

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country. ↗

— Allen West

#cities #country #day #decades #died

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes. ↗

— Billy West

#celestial #could #everybody #had #jokes

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#come #communicate #different #different world #live

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty. ↗

— Walter Moers

#imagination #love #storytelling #walter-moers #beauty

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. ↗

— Cornel West

#america #asks #best #black #corporations

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. ↗

— Cornel West

#enough #happens #issues #need #now

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people. ↗

— Cornel West

#concerned #economic #economists #joseph #know

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. ↗

— Cornel West

#between #corporate #court #decisions #goes

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon. ↗

— Dominic West

#apparently #down #forget #settle #soon

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap. ↗

— Dominic West

#because #big #british #british actors #cheap