#race

He shook his head, just looking at me. "What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #beauty

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty

How I wish you could have known me in my strength. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #grace #inspirational

Life,disassembled and reassembled into a thing of beauty,reflect GOD love in a manifestation of unlimited grace. ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#god-slove #grace #life #beauty

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#behind #class #family #hide #more

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#peculiarly #race #romans #told #warlike

I believe in aging gracefully. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#believe #gracefully #i #i believe #i believe in

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#course #embrace #me #men #say