Michelle Alexander Quotes

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1967

Topics

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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Jim McKay

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At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

Andra Day

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I think you can applaud President Trump's efforts on health care if that's where you lie. I think you can applaud his naming of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but I think when he does something like make a veiled threat against the former FBI Director... I think people expect for leaders to step up and condemn that.

Ana Navarro

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I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Roxane Gay

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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Louis Kronenberger

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I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

Judy Blume

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While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Dean Rusk

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To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

Bob Beauprez

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Richard Le Gallienne

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I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

Martin McDonagh

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I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

Kiki Dee

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