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Jonathan Kozol Quotes

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children College Prison End Go Will

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

Life Car Me Think Thought Summer

If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.'

Good Age I Am Fun Me Mom

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

Service Together School Crazy Small

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Friendship Friend Marriage Doing You

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Love Uniform Way Keep Get Longer

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Robert Baldwin Ross

Say Going Oxford Alas Indefensible

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

Roberto Benigni

Mother Truth Ugly Me Thought Year

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

People World Pride Lift Greatest

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

Winston Marshall

Band Interest Because Common Tour

I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'

Myself You Garden Place Grass First

When we don't win, we have to draw conclusions and assess our mistakes. Things can always be improved.

Mistakes Win Always Conclusions Our

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Life God Faith You Understand Never

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