![Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.](/assets/img/quote-photos/some-problems-we-share-as-women-some-we-do-not-you-white-women-fear-your-chil.jpg)
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growing-up thinking black
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore. Ryan Lochte
growing-up doors next
Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing. Tyler Perry
growing-up important behind-you
To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up. William J. Clinton
growing-up want honest
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen. Richard M. Nixon
growing-up police groups
I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group. Tracy Morgan
growing-up thinking accepting
Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. Robert Smith
growing-up school acting
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor. Sara Paxton
growing-up writing loss
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe. Sara Paretsky
growing-up kids thinking
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention. Sandra Bernhard
children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
children coming few helping kids program reading shelter
Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
children city stop streets teach throwing
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
children compared cost couple elderly family financial four good home keeping minimal replace stay town
Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
children fit funny kid life
He just kind of fit in, personality wise. He was funny, happy. Chandler was the kind of kid that the children always wanted around. He just was kind of the life of the party.
children school thinks
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
children discovered information passing people
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
children coming comparison content kids learning memorize results rote test whatever whether
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
children inclined less standing
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
white jail black
Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail. Richard Wright
white light narrative
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us. Richard Avedon
white flames joy
The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever. William Sharp
white blue red
The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
white challenging-the-status-quo want
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. Sandra Cisneros
white silence horizon
To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it. Vladimir Nabokov
white community african-american
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. Xavier Becerra
white house white-house
I literally went from the outhouse to the White House. Wynonna Judd
white race black
Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black. William O. Douglas