#asking

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#asking #because #front #going #i

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#difficulties #face #i #keep #most

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#answered #asking #been #during #fifty

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. ↗

— Tom Morello

#apartment #asking #building #estate #family

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

If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick. ↗

— Randy Moss

#being #bill #brady #coached #happy

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#always #asking #dissect #give #god

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview. ↗

— Katie Price

#anyone #asking #call #got #hide

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#comes #country #energy #need #you