#there

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. ↗

— George Canning

#pilot #storm #weathered

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#am #any #being #black #every

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#activities #activity #borders #businesses #economic

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#alike #black #citizens #devoid #master

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.
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— Jarod Kintz

#adoption #family #grandfathered #grandma #law

When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#bound #cry #get #guy #i

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#fancy #i #just #little #lyric

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#bless #brought #cared #children #did

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution