Jonathan Kozol Quotes

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1936

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I've always got something to say.

Joan Jett

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You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

John Candy

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I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

John Culberson

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Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Andrea Arnold

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I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

Andrew McCarthy

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I belong to a generation that has seen the explosion of freedom, the celebration of freedom.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

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The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

Denis Thatcher

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All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

Christina Aguilera

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Everybody knows how to throw a punch. Not correctly - he or she might not know how to turn the wrist or know what part of the hand to hit with. But humans instinctively know to fight, whether they bite or claw or pull hair. It's an instinct.

CM Punk

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There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.

Alice Lowe

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Beauty ain't always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, 'Damn.'

Prodigy

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I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

Suzy Bogguss

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