Jason Reynolds Quotes

I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.

Jason Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 6, 1983

Topics

SchoolReadingConnectionsCreating

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

John Dalberg-Acton

MorningTodayGreatFeelNothing

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

Matthew Stewart

FinishingUniversityJustIdealism

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

Matt Rosendale

BelieveDebateRhetoricSideEither

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

Michael Graves

BirdRedBlueCoolThinkYou

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

John Polkinghorne

GodGreatSpeakProblemKnowHuman

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

Tracey Ullman

PeopleWorldVoiceYouSayBecome

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

Roger Ailes

I AmMeToughThinkMediaMore

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Ron Chernow

AmericanStock MarketMarketPublic

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

Miguel

LifePerspectiveBetterFeelYou

I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that's out in public, will keep himself, his staff, and, in some cases, the public safe.

Chris Collins

BelieveCitizenWillSafeOutKeep

If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters.

Brett Young

HappyWorldSomeoneDoingYouKnow

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

Alice Ripley

ConnectionMental IllnessEveryone

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