"You will have trouble with family, with friends, and every time you go to a restaurant people will be looking at you. It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white!” ― Donna Tartt, “At first, all is black and white. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? Or maybe balance, as Famine has said -- strength matched with temperance. You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin!More than 80 percent of activity initiated by whites was with other whites, while just 3 percent of that went to blacks.
“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right.
Brene Brown My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot.
It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair.
It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you.
It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives.