#pen

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #ever #everything #find #found

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.' ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#because #creating #criminals #deals #deserve

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#cause #come #depends #does #fight

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#disclosed #does #happen #intellectual #just

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to. ↗

— Andrew Natsios

#spend #wanted

A lot happens by accident in poetry. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#happens #lot #poetry

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beings #board #drawing #human #human beings

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#creative #every #every man #happens #man

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#cafe #cooking #culinary #culinary school #day

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#doomed #envision #fall #found #happen