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I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be. — Charles M. Blow Boys Copy Share Image
Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered. — Charles M. Blow Destiny Copy Share Image
The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow Being Copy Share Image
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,… — Charles M. Blow Absence Copy Share Image
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There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
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“Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is… — Charles M. Blow America Copy Share Image
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The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.” — Charles M. Blow Empathy Copy Share Image
Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself. — Charles M. Blow Deviant Copy Share Image
You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference. — Charles M. Blow Differences Copy Share Image
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While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our… — Charles M. Blow Absence Copy Share Image
In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
