#skin

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#asking #god #know #something #sometimes

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#color #difference #great #me #only

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much. ↗

— LeBron James

#asking #bother #cast #feel #foundation

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ↗

— William James

#beforehand #come #enough #faith #hour

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart. ↗

— Keith Jarrett

#electric #even #heart #i #ideas

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#asking #better #dig #digging #else

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. ↗

— Billy Joel

#ban #banned #did #die #good

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#before #college #drop-out #dropped #even

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#color #education #emancipation #fact #justice