Charles M. Blow

Quotes

• “Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressi...”
• “The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not iden...”
• “All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is suffi...”
• “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 p...”
• “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...”
• “One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient....”
• “I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole t...”
• “It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling the...”
• “I don't know how to describe the sound of a world crashing. Maybe there is no sound, just a great emptiness, an envelopi...”
• “Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates ...”
• “We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most...”
• “The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.”
• “There is no wrong time to do the right thing.”
• “Co-opted convictions will always betray you.”