#hum

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#goodness #hear #humans #people #please

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #humor #j-d-robb #roarke #death

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground. ↗

— Jenny Han

#truth #dreams

When I turn back to Jase, he’s again beaming at me. “You’re nice.” He sounds pleased, as if he hadn’t expected this aspect of my personality. ↗

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

#humour #romance #young-adult #young-adult-romance #funny

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#could #easygoing #enormous #film #good

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ↗

— Mark Twain

#human #human race #laughter #race #really

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. ↗

— Dave Barry

#african-american #american men #giant #heads #like

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. ↗

— Todd Barry

#humankind #i #i do #like #love

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. ↗