#relation

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion. ↗

— Myles Munroe

#relationships #beauty

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #confidence #inspiration #life #marriage

Nothing changes if nothing changes ↗

— Donna Barnes

#dating-advice #relationship-advice #relationships #change

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. ↗

— Bill Gates

#communities #correlation #educational #high #inner-city

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.
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— Jarod Kintz

#adoption #family #grandfathered #grandma #law

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected. ↗

— Rollo May

#change