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Michelle Alexander Quotes

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Control Racial System Social Mass

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

Think Legal Should

I just love Italian, and I think, from being Italian, I just love Italian food.

Jessie James Decker

Love Food Think Italian Food Just

Pilates is phenomenal.

Pilates Phenomenal

'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

Relationship Great Think Comedy Body

I'm a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective - I feel things first, and then I think them through - and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel's nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.

Michael Bastian

Myself World Small Think Feel Dark

Telling a story inherently has bias because of perspective and the way the story is told.

Stephen McFeely

Perspective Story Bias Way Because

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.

Failure History Mistakes Intelligence

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

Strive Veracity

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

Michelle Bachelet

Service Struggle Woman I Am Social

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing Self Stay Who Reasons Than

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

History Culture American Way Shame

I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.

Life Woman Me My Life Someone Hands

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