#ric

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#american #blacks #community #how #long

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #distance #father #his #kept

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#because #most #preferred #slept #way

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#disparity #earnings #greater #poor #real

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#both #constitution #fair #generally #must

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#adult #america #dealing #education #feel

I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#cheese #come #drink #eat #egg

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#case #cold #columbia #department #detectives