Michelle Alexander Quotes

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BackMovement1950sSystemOurSome

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

Jill Soloway

MoneyWorldPuzzleYouActorOut

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

Jesse Ventura

ReligionProveRight

I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

Anderson Cooper

FriendBackWantHerGetText

As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.

Amanda Seales

LifeWomanGovernmentBlackMy Life

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

Sigourney Weaver

TogetherFeelEnjoyPeersWorking

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

Ron Fournier

NatureChangeLookingLongOut

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Russell Smith

ArtWhyAlwaysAbstractArtists

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

LoveSoulGrowHatredLikeOur

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Michael Morpurgo

LoveGreatJobParentsReadingYou

The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'

Michael T. Flynn

IntelligenceBossMeYouEnemyKnow

Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.

Diego Luna

FamilyLoveTimeTravelFirst Time

In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.

Arthur Laffer

RiseTaxWillIncome TaxComing

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