Michelle Alexander Quotes

During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws had been allowed to stand.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.

Andrew Wyatt

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'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.

Melissa Leo

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Andre Maurois

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

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One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

Trai Byers

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I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

Rita Ora

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Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.

Mary Dillon

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Good cooking is good cooking, regardless of the price.

Lisa Hanawalt

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My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.

Jason Wu

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

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I'm so happy to have all this support from everyone around the world, and I'm forever thankful for all of them.

Chloe Kim

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