Michelle Alexander Quotes

Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Sufjan Stevens

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Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of 1954 to limit their free speech.

Steve Scalise

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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Simon Callow

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Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.

Shinzo Abe

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When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension in the proposition that your reality, your hopes, your frustrations, are just a condition of your age, that what feels unique to you is a very common thing after all.

Rumaan Alam

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We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

Rush Limbaugh

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I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

Mike McCready

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And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

Dennis Muren

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You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's... nice.

Pierfrancesco Favino

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Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Peter Warlock

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By reigniting the exploration role of our government Lewises and Clarks within and enabled by the infrastructure and economic drive of commercial space and the people themselves, this nation can rise to heights unimaginable.

Rick Tumlinson

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I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

Ricki Lake

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