#very

Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#everyone #everything #lacking #lost #missing

Debt Chauffeur, that's my name for him now, wants to marry me. He asked me down on bended knee, and I would have been honored - except he wants us to live in London, and he wants me to live white. I crowed at that. I laughed so hard and not a tear came. He couldn't understand it. I don't often think on how white I look; it's always been a question of how colored I feel, and I feel plenty colored. He said that no one in London will know that I'm supposed to be colored. And I said I am colored, colored black, the way I talk, the way I cook, the way I do most everything, and he said but you don't have to be. ↗

— Alice Randall

#born-into-slavery #marriage-proposal #mulatto #the-wind-done-gone #marriage

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#continual #discipline #everyday #helping #i

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place. ↗

— John Buchan

#fortitude #knives #loyalty #men #murder

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries? ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspiration #motivation #self-acceptance #inspirational

I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired together. One was the inevitable, something I could not change in my life, while the other was the hope and belief that I could. These two words were enemies of each other, and one of them was down right dangerous for a slave to have anywhere near his mind. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#black-history #civil-war #equality #slavery #change

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#cell #chained #every #his #however

Don't settle for being an option; become a priority. ↗

— Matt Mitchell

#advice-for-daily-living #believe #bravery #inspiration #love

If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #inspirational

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#inspirational #life #inspirational