If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war had threatened to split the nation into new feuding armies, and the inequities of industrial life had brutalized too m...
Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that t...
All poor people ain't black/ and all black people ain't poor.
Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.
Whoever has a tail of straw should not hesitate near the fire.
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as:
If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.
But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way...
The one who lives solely with the many, solely with the best, lives only as briefly as that which he owns, passes his tests. The one living by his actions, and by his deeds, will live his full life owning the average, happily having them, filling his...
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.
We all have to learn how to reengineer healthy living back into our lives.
