#race

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#folks #girl #grace #great #her

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world. ↗

— Ted Turner

#gave #had #half #hands #honest

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States. ↗

— Jacques Villeneuve

#knew #races #states #stayed #win

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#god #grace #intellect #soul #faith

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, ‘No matter what life throws at me, I’m going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.’ And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#faith #god #grace #hope #life

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#before #disgrace #forty #forty years #house

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#always #america #democratic #despot #embrace

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right? ↗

— Arabella Weir

#education #everybody #good #i #irrespective