Michelle Alexander Quotes

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for life. These men are part of a growing undercaste - not class, caste - a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.

John Burnside

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I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.

John Ridley

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Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Sue Townsend

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The original publication of 'The DaVinci Code' preceded the e-book era.

Sonny Mehta

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I think movies are too long.

Michael Moore

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.

Brian Helgeland

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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

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Constraining business is absolutely wrong.

Sergey Galitsky

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The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

Marianne Williamson

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Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Leon Russell

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