#ashe

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#dreams #other #peace #reduced #vanish

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet. ↗

— Carry Nation

#certainly #ever #felt #five #giant

I'm not a big slasher film fan. ↗

— David Naughton

#fan #film #i #slasher

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #athlete #been

These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#days #enough #get #how #kids

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. ↗

— Ted Olson

#bit #center #course #crashed #devastated

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe. ↗

— George Pataki

#character #come #corner #creativity #decade