#rant

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#american kids #being #cary #cary grant #cowboys

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#catches #dog #education #federal #federal level

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#always #being #full #get #restaurant

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ↗

— Pierre Berton

#destroy #divide #enemy #freedom #head-on

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#laziness #low #manner #person #repose

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated. ↗