Charles M. Blow Quotes
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Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.
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In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.
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America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.
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Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
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I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
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The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
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You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.
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The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.
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Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
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The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
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Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?
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My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.
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I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.
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There is no wrong time to do the right thing.
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Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.
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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...
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Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
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I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.