Charles M. Blow
Charles M. Blow
Charles McRay Blowis an American journalist, and the current visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 August 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Charles M. Blow quotes about
abdication voters apathy
Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
leader humanity together
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
conviction betray
Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
just-being done fine
I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.
trying culture males
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.
gay rights movement
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
bisexual use connotation
While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.
color illustration weight
An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
kids quiet introspective
I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
government nsa people
Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk...
country boys trying
I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.
determination destiny leader
Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
love-you world may
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.
lying cat doors
A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.