#real

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ↗

— Doug Larson

#elation #feel #real #standing #star

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#really #share #thankful #you

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#effect #had #him #i #i think

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#developing #developing world #difference #funding #government

I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#area #been #bond #fans #fantastic