#ourselves

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. ↗

— Kanye West

#baggy #black #conservative #discriminating #especially

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. ↗

— Kim Weston

#endeavors #fulfilling #individuals #make #need

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#everyone #freedom #frontiers #inside #mean

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#before #british #cannot #conscience #decided

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#here #i #know #order #ourselves

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. ↗

— James Wolcott

#conned #government #lies #media #ourselves

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. ↗

— Judith Wright

#deeper #get #gratification #instant #instant gratification

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. ↗

— Brigham Young

#children #never #our #ourselves #permit

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance. ↗

— James Young

#excelled #our #ourselves #performance #something