#tru

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#church #collection #conversations #heads #keeping

When you made tons of money, had a beautiful wife and three adorable kids-when you were the envy of your community and coworkers-you had no right to behave badly. Stop whining, chin up, take Prozac, and pretend your pain isn't ravaging your soul. ↗

— C.S. Lakin

#beauty

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#bbc #family #i #inflated #instrumental

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#i #injury #never #particular #preparation

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#away #become #bolshevism #broken #determined

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#his #i #liked #much #precise

I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians. ↗

— Eddie Murray

#hitting #i #indians #instructor #now

How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look! ↗

— Farid al-Din Attar

#inspirational #truth #beauty

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy? ↗

— Charles Benoit

#truth #humor