#through

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

#extent #game #get #i #nfl

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#exemplified #patriotism #through

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#fascinated #i #kid #little #little kid

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #before #cry #days #get

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#aspects #come #does #enough #game

The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#allowed #been #build #communications #communities

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#always #better #better way #development #emphasize

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bad #bad times #caught #confidence #fire