#use

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#ad #always #am #because #black

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#always #award #because #being #end

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#because #day #funny #hiv #i

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#family #here #house #i #islands

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #community #contact #direct #eye

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#bad #bad review #because #coat #even

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architect #architecture #art #astonishingly #build

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#because #been #clear #courage #dean

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff. ↗

— Richard D. James

#i #make #make up #names #stuff