Michelle Alexander Quotes

Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunityBlackDownCrimeNation

I first came to Glasgow with no money and slept in a workman's hut on a building site.

Jimmy Savile

MoneyBuildingFirstHutSleptCame

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Jill Scott

LoveRespectTimeHumilityYouSee

I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

John Barrasso

PeopleMeWaitFreeCareTake Care

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

John O. Brennan

GoodFootballYouLookPlayNeed

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

Sterling K. Brown

SchoolDoingCountryOverWonderful

I'm married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

Simon Helberg

GirlMarriedHitEveryTend

It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly wrong. The Klansmen were armed, and there was always a peril.

Ron Stallworth

ManBlackWrongDangerousAlways

Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.

Mary Steenburgen

ChildAmericaHouseWhiteWildFew

It's a very big world with some very big characters. And, boy, do you have to be able to stand up for yourself when you walk into a working men's club and negotiate a loan.

Judith McKenna

WalkMenYourselfWorldStand Up

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Derek Jeter

ExcusesAlwaysMakeYoungerTaught

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

Denis Villeneuve

CinemaIdeaLikeSpectacle

Thanks to the football, every time I go out and play, it releases the tension, and you forget about the problems.

David Silva

TimeFootballProblemsYouPlayGo

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