Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.
Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives. " This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons
Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.
A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.