Alphonso Jackson Quotes

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

Alphonso Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 9, 1945

Topics

HomeOwnershipYouCountryKnow

Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

Joe Sakic

YourselfPeopleChanceHometownYou

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Max Lucado

MotherCompassionSocietyAbortion

I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.

John Leguizamo

WorkLoveHistoryFeelAmericaOver

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.

Amal Clooney

BeachWomanYouFindKnowWant

I was so scared of my father. He'd pull up in his truck and start looking for something I'd done wrong. There was no escape, no excuse, no way out of nothing.

Roy Jones Jr.

FatherTruckLookingStartWrong

Acting is a privilege, and I'm exceedingly blessed to be able to do what I do. At the end of the day, it's all entertainment.

Russell Hornsby

DayBlessedEnd Of The DayEndAble

Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

Jean Chatzky

PositiveFocusRoadResilienceYou

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MusicWorldYouFindWayDNA

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Jonathan Davis

MeLaughYouSameBecauseDifferent

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.

Don Winslow

1980sGuideKenya

To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.

Chloe Kim

StyleArtMeThinkStandAthlete

There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that's how humans reproduced. And I thought, 'How could I really understand that?'

William T. Vollmann

WomanBrotherThoughtUnderstandTwo

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