“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”
Alen Cohen
Mariko says some things that make me roll my eyes at yoga, but this one stuck with me all through class.
(via mar-see-ah)“In one survey a fifth of Korean middle and high school students said they felt tempted to commit suicide. In 2009 a tragic 202 actually did so. The suicide rate among young Koreans is high: 15 per 100,000 15-24-year-olds, compared with ten Americans, seven Chinese and five Britons.”
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires”
“The test of how racist you are is not how many people of color you can count as friends,” I recall someone telling me—I can’t remember who now. “It’s how many white people you’re willing to talk to about racism.”
Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race
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THIS!!!!!!! If you are not actively calling out your white friends on their racism, you are not an ally. Plain and simple. If you are not policing your own whiteness, you are not an ally.
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“I don’t think anybody’s ever talked about it as articulately and clearly. I understood it better having heard [rappers] talk about it…I mean, they really get it and they understand it, and that’s a great thing. They’ve been very supportive all these years. I think they’ve helped us tremendously.”
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“Be careful around January Jones. She’s not as approachable as the others. She’s really serious about what she does. Everyone else is so nice.”
Jared Gilmore, aka Mad Men’s Bobby Draper, giving advice to the next kid actor who will play Bobby. Gilmore is going to ABC’s Once Upon A Time so his role will be recast.
He has no idea how cutting he’s being.
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“Looking out, I realize I’m a long way from Flatbush Ave., but Brooklyn’s definitely in the house tonight.” - Chris Mullin, Hall of Fame speech ‘11
(photo credit: LIFE.com)
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“Glenn Beck is going to Israel? Haven’t they suffered enough?”
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“…to see the Republicans up there carrying on the way they are, I basically concluded that maybe we should just pass this thing. … If the Republicans hate it, there must be some good in it.””
“if I listened to the skeptics, I wouldn’t be here.”
mae west
“ACORN introduced Yoko Ono to John Lennon”
“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
“The political beauty of the public option opt-out, in a nutshell: the red states will throw a tantrum & hold their breath — until they turn blue,”
