The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. — Charles M. Blow Courage Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to dumb it down, but you do have to sum it up.” — Charles M. Blow 2009 Copy Share Image
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. — Charles M. Blow Always Copy Share Image
Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want. — Charles M. Blow Cooling 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
I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine. — Charles M. Blow Done 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
“Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.” — Charles M. Blow 2014 Copy Share Image
A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to… — Charles M. Blow Cat Copy Share Image
“It has been my experience that the "hardest" people in the world are actually the most fragile and the most soft-spoken are… — Charles M. Blow Hardest Copy Share Image
Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have… — Charles M. Blow Bigotry Copy Share Image
“I would often recall one of my mother’s sayings: You could stay in hell for a little while if you knew that… — Charles M. Blow Mother Copy Share Image
Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it… — Charles M. Blow Hard working Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Concentrated 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 Black Copy Share Image
“I was afraid that men like that could see the hole in me, a thing I dared not admit even to myself:… — Charles M. Blow Afraid Copy Share Image
“I say, seeking to diminish the human dignity of another whose only crime is not loving whom you would have him or… — Charles M. Blow 2009 Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television… — Charles M. Blow Accent Copy Share Image
Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously… — Charles M. Blow Administration Copy Share Image
Regardless of their politics, the vast majority of the people I meet, when they can speak and listen and act of their… — Charles M. Blow Accord Copy Share Image
When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I… — Charles M. Blow Airplane Copy Share Image
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of… — Charles M. Blow Away Copy Share Image
I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling… — Charles M. Blow Afternoon Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love… — Charles M. Blow America Copy Share Image
Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself:… — Charles M. Blow Advances 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 Concepts 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
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 Happy Copy Share Image
I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be. — Charles M. Blow Boys Copy Share Image
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 Addition 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
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 Black Copy Share Image
