Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

Over the years, I've found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the 'angry black girl.' But if I don't say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.

Franchesca Ramsey

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• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Giving

• What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Winning

• After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Support

• We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Single

• T Rex could not run.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Run
  • Could
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• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Anything
  • Trade
  • Homeland

• One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Space

• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • High
  • Giving

• When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again. It is best to both give and receive opinions in a friendly way.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Giving
  • Opinion
  • Deep

• Giving up at something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Growing

• Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Player

• Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Mystery
  • Invisible
  • Eternal

• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Color
  • Distance
  • Emotion

• Over the years, I've found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the 'angry black girl.' But if I don't say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.

  

  Franchesca Ramsey
  • Giving
  • Anything
  • Dealing