#whit

Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest— where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#past #present #white-oleander #imagination

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#avoided #been #characteristic #giving #his

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#carry #develop #far #him #his

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#fat #i #just #kid #know

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#horse #me #mom #never #off

I think I sound like Barry White. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

#barry white #i #i think #like #sound

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african american #american #community #diabetes #does

The White House is a strange place. ↗

— Marlin Fitzwater

#place #strange #white #white house