Michelle Alexander Quotes

Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.

Andrea Jung

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With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.

Steven Sinofsky

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Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

Tony Campolo

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I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.

Roger Ailes

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Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.

Lisa Lutz

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I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

Jason Kilar

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You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.

Diane Kruger

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I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

Dick York

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In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

Deborah Tannen

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The Hermes scarf is a coveted, much-collected symbol of success that defines the Paris-based luxury company. But it has no single designer. Rather, the scarves are designed by a far-flung array of freelance artists.

Christina Binkley

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In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

Ashley McBryde

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What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Athol Fugard

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