#macy

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#anything #conducting #diplomacy #i #out

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#folk #i #intimacy #make #music

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#impossible #intimacy #know #life #married

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#diplomacy #inspirational #communication

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#art

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#prejudice #race #white-supremacy #attitude

The familiar is by far the most beautiful. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#familiarity #intimacy #beauty

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. ↗

— Robert Byron

#nationalism #reason #taboos #business

As you soak in His Presence, and soak up His love for you, you will begin to know that you are truly and totally loved, maybe for the first time in your life. This will change your life in so many ways. You will feel and experience His love and His rest and His peace daily and this cannot help but affect your life. ↗

— Linda Boone

#intimacy-with-god #real-love #soaking #change

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#conversation #diplomacy #communication