#rand

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#behind #black #closet #did #dna

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #been #colors #diversity #else

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#grandparents #i #loved #sometimes #went

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#be different #different #grandchildren #i #i am

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value? ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#around #find #go #hope #how

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water. ↗

— John Leech

#continually #excuses #finding #glass #small

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#every #felt #grand #had #i

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#growing #how #matter #own #tall

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#artist #destiny #grand #mournful #yet

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#author #challenge #corners #critics #every