87 Quotes by Jeanne Marie Laskas

The league lied. They had the evidence and chose to ignore it. They had the evidence at least since 2005, when one unlikely scientist, a man from nowhere who would not go away, who would not back down, found proof.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else’s.

It says the American people are full of goodness and wisdom, and you just have to be paying attention. And sometimes that’s hard to do when you’re inside this bubble, but this was a little portal through which I could remind myself of that every day. The letters are beautiful, aren’t they? -Obama.

I do think there’s a mind-set – no matter how much we may want to deny it in this country – about the perception of blackness. And sometimes it’s a subconscious mind-set. Where anything associated with blackness has a negative connotation. This mind-set has a very fundamental assumption. A false assumption that black people cannot be intelligent. I.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn’t like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn’t work, and sometimes you couldn’t even find the switch.

Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn’t mean the message sticks – or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In.