Michelle Alexander Quotes

I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

Joel A. Barker

ChangeWorldRippleYouCreating

It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.

Megan Rapinoe

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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Meryl Streep

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I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Stephen Harper

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People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinny. I'm very easy to psychoanalyse. I was a gangly, awkward teenager who could make people laugh and thought that was a way to be socially more comfortable.

Stephen Merchant

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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.

Simon Toyne

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Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

Rose George

MarriageFreedomIndiaBurnAnimals

It's time that we gave our children what we owe them, which is a richer understanding of the past and of the importance of all that Germany has done for England and that England has done for Germany.

Miranda Seymour

ChildrenTimePastUnderstandingOwe

A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew - often served, like chipped beef, over toast - that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.

Jonathan Miles

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Uncertainty is bad for business.

Dinesh Paliwal

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Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

MusicGrowing UpSayingYouGrowing

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Bow Wow

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