Ron Stallworth Quotes

The KKK members that I was dealing with never saw me because my interaction with them occurred over the phone. They were convinced that I was 1) white, and 2) a racial supremacist like them based strictly on my telephone conversation with them.

Ron Stallworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1953

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I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

Andrew Solomon

TravelSchoolEnvironmentalBelieve

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

John Muir

FoodManAnimalEatingEarthLiving

I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't own a television in New York, never read the newspapers, and am old enough to have lived before the Internet, she is a shadowy figure in my memory.

Stephen Hough

TimeNew YorkMemoryInternetEnough

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Stephen Sondheim

BelieveChanceStoryYouActing

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

Sonya Hartnett

ExperienceSchoolMeWorldBetter

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

Lorna Luft

LifeDramaLivingHighUpGrown

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

Liya Kebede

WorkDreamsPeopleImpossibleWrong

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Cindy Crawford

PerfectTryEverything

As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.

Asif Kapadia

FootballParentsThoughtWeekendGo

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

Tim Cook

BusinessThinkAppleContentOwn

When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.

Nikki Haley

LifeActionDutyActOwnTake

What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.

Ken Cuccinelli

LifeLiveLoseBackLibertyWithout

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