#could

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#atom bomb #bomb #consider #could #country

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#because #clothes #communicating #could #i

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#books #come #could #exist #i

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ↗

— Ann Landers

#defeat #honor #might #much #success

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly. ↗

— Ali Larter

#fly #i #if i could #life #love

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#because #better #city #common #could

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#angels #bad #being #could #hear