#wi

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#breaks #competitor #competitors #drive #find

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#doing #done #down #either #feel

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#automatic #away #become #could #had

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#arms #attend #away #flowering #hold

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#house #master #never #tools #will

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#always #child #her #herself #mother

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#consciousness #dealing #further #lesbian #lives

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#dog #earth #ever #lasting #ties

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#color #create #culture #develop #experiences