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Related Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America. NATE POWELL I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to ... DAVID QUAMMEN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE LEV GROSSMAN ELISABETH ELLIOT Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the... ANDREW CARD TAMMARA WEBBER FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS MARK MCKINNON Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the... ADAM MANSBACH Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE In the Year 2525, if man is still alive... PETER COSTELLO PHILIP ROTH And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen s... BIBLE Over the past 25 years, only sixty-three 15-year-old or older male bears have been examined at check... MARK TERNENT PHILIP ROTH HARUKI MURAKAMI ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN PIERCE BROWN Nobody can convince me that if she were a white male that all of these things would be in the public... MARY BRIERS PHILIP ROTH If you knew that a 16-year-old boy was looking at high-end Porsches, that's very different than if i... ELLEN SIMINOFF (One difference between old-style autocrats, such as Caesar, Louis XIV, or Napoleon, and their total... CATIE MARRON If you're a healthy 25-year-old male, why wouldn't you get a lower premium plan? DREW CASSIDY FINLEY PETER DUNNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS TOBA BETA SARAH J. MAAS JOHN GUARE If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... LANGSTON HUGHES MADELEINE L'ENGLE ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN NICHOLAS SPARKS ZACHARY TAYLOR C. JOYBELL C. Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES MALCOLM X If this hurricane had struck a white, middle-class neighborhood in the Northeast or the Southwest, h... CALVIN BUTTS Not bad for a 49 year old man [completing the London Marathon in 5h58m] DIGBY JONES The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. ... THEODORE MELFI I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I st... AARON SCHOCK OSCAR WILDE I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam... J. D. VANCE He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty m... UMBERTO ECO JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I can't help but think it's such a privilege. Not only being in that wonderful classic film, but liv... KAROLYN GRIMES JOHN RIDLEY NELSON MANDELA I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an ... URI GELLER Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp. ALEXEI MAXIM RUSSELL Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Sixty per cent seems like a high threshold. But if it requires sixty per cent provincially, I'm not ... LEONARD RUSSELL I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18... STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY ARTHUR MIDDLETON When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... Diversity is a phrase that's tossed around, but we actually approach this as a business subject and ... LUKE VISCONTI I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as... URI GELLER DEYTH BANGER And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy es... BIBLE JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART NEIL GAIMAN LARRY ELDER JAY LENO It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and blac... DAVID STERN I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clande... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT TOM COTTON SITTING BULL SITTING BULL MALCOLM X ALBERT SCHWEITZER JAMES BALDWIN This instant is the only time there is. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Southern Ohio is in a moderate drought, and I could tell the fire Wednesday was burning different, m... DAVE BOSTIC HENRY DAVID THOREAU A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good! SILVIA HARTMANN DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON SARA TEASDALE Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. GRATEFUL DEAD BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne... F. CALVIN PARKER SITTING BULL
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