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John A. Powell Quotes

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1947

Topics

Live Poverty More Neighborhoods Than

Humor was how I got through everything in my life. I used to find a funny way to get out of situations. That's who I was. That's who I am!

Jermaine Fowler

Life Funny Humor I Am My Life Find

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Morning Time Sleep Night Thinking

It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.

Work Parent Entrepreneur Stop Now

I would love it if you would come in and teach me how to really do you.

Love Me You Teach Come Would

We're going to have to work. We're going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Work Play Nothing Will Going Well

The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.

Opportunities Movies Will Successful

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

Strength Upside Down You Down Twice

I have seen American determination in people like Debbi Sommers. She runs a furniture rental business for conventions in Las Vegas. When 9/11 hit, and again, when the recession tanked the conventions business, she didn't give up, close down, or lay off her people. She taught them not just to rent furniture, but also to manufacture it.

Business Determination People Vegas

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

Work Security Meeting Done Fired

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

You Late Television Know Kid Off

We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

Time Important Realize Release Date

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

Angry Conservative More Emergency

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