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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#better #cocktails #cuba #given #jazz

The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#chavez #deteriorating #fabric #government #infrastructure

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. ↗

— David Sylvian

#buddhism #discipline #necessary #where #zen

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

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#greatest #i #lie #like #lost

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it. ↗

— Jack Lord

#like #looks #personality #thinking #unique

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

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#bearing #bring #changes #direct #hope

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #bored #each #get #hand

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? ↗

— Audre Lorde

#although #define #energizing #enjoy #i