#ten

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #black community #class #community #divide

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

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ↗

— Horace

#drinkers #live #long #please #poems

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#camps #concentration #countries #died #false

I knew style and content went hand in hand. ↗

— Boy George

#hand #i #knew #style #went

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#beginning #book #comes #cover #end

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state. ↗

— Bronislaw Geremek

#country #jews #often #pathology #poland

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you. ↗

— Stan Getz

#listen #musicians #play #read #records