#rena

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #harlem-renaissance #history #horror #humanity

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#character #every #great #great need #lead

You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#romance #serena #love

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked. ... "Ask me again in the morning. ↗

— Donna Thurland

#ask #grey #kate #love #morning

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more. ↗

— Marcia Vaughan

#irena #kindness #love #sendler #love

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances. ↗

— Sylvan Barnet

#men #mortal #renaissance #men

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should! ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#serena #sexy

The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization ↗

— Viktor Vijay Kumar

#europe #india #renaissance #west #art

A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by fools. ↗

— Thucydides

#well-roundedness #law

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole. ↗

— Courtney Schafer

#horse-shoes #life-and-living #life