#un

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #bridge #child #divide #finally

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#characters #extensions #family #films #friends

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#big country #china #chinese #country #inhabited

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#make #nobody #pop #shocked #singers

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#amount #coincides #content #entire #exactly

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#complement #country #daughter #even #i

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#find #his #reason #scoundrel #stupid

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#clearly #communicate #listen #our #specifically

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#already #appreciate #big #busy #considerable

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#certain #experience #external #having #internal