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William Julius Wilson Quotes

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

William Julius Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1935

Topics

Racism Society Inequality First Half

They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

Jeremy London

Me Winning Go Golden Where Used

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Robert Musil

Life Art Layer Bare Strips

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Angus Deaton

Grow Why Mysterious Slowly Some

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Michael Bergin

Family Funny Good Time Man Good Man

One of my proudest moments is definitely UFC 105 in Manchester when I stopped Denis Kang in the second round.

Michael Bisping

Moments Round Second UFC Manchester

In high school, I was scared to dance.

Rob Gronkowski

Dance School High School High Scared

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

Douglas Booth

Love Dance Night Long Fan All Night

I work at a non-profit called ALS Worldwide, where we work with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and families. It is often heavy work, but I'm grateful to be able to contribute to the ALS community. I'm constantly learning about science and medicine, and I have the honor of corresponding with patients throughout the world.

Chloe Benjamin

Work Learning Community Science

I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.

Chubby Checker

History Dance Rest Regret Acting Up

I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued at the end of a phrase - the amount of respect I have for singers!

Bradley Cooper

Respect Singing Thought End Hard

When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'

Alicia Garza

Family People Talking You Say Talk

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Alison Gopnik

Children History Together School Me