#ole

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#blaze #could #earth #father #fathers

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#anyone #cannot #child #despises #fooled

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. ↗

— Malcolm X

#arms #pacifism #peace #revolution #violence

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#cruel #dictator #hard #his #look

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. ↗

— Christian Bale

#came #cape #covering #damn #damn thing

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#ambition #become #career #certainly #course

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#colors #existence #like #our #pursue

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#cast #giving #i #imagine #jamie

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#ball #breaking #career #fastball #i

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. ↗

— Abdallah II

#dispossessed #division #earth #extremists #global