Best 24 quotes of Charles M. Blow on MyQuotes

An illustration is a visual editorial - its just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

I know that life, I’ve done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.

Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.

While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.

This is the reason I write, to remind people of honor and courage; to tell them that their cause isn’t lost, that their destiny is victory.

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 no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation. And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.

We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.