#rug

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy. ↗

— John Astin

#easy #express #felt #get #how

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#black #book #deeper #folk #gives

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#ever #expensive #extremely #how #knows

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#considerable #english #english school #event #games

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#child #grade #last #learn #needs

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#better #capitalism #communism #conditions #engaged

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#best #citizen #dangerous #days #fathers

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#been #bit #country #i #liberation