#ryo

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#behind #black #closet #did #dna

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#appreciates #country #did #everyone #families

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#business world #cash #coins #come #everyone

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#break #could #disease #effort #everyone

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader. ↗

— Richard Gere

#control #else #emotions #everyone #i

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#everyone #hippies #like #look #ones

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration