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William Julius Wilson Quotes

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

William Julius Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Negative Black White Workers Just

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Time People Me End Know Important

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Curious You Find Know Way Write

I have a family and children I adore and a husband who's wonderful.

Family Children Husband Wonderful

Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to write about.

Michael Crichton

Medical School Writing Train Now

You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

Pressure Decisions You Want Real Us

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

Myself Energy Face Cancer Make

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

Gold Wall Fame Material Things Need

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

Music Mathematics Together Harmony

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket square' in the breast pocket of a man's blazer, sport coat, or suit jacket.

Man Nothing Jacket Coat Suit Square

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mirror Politics People Help Look

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Down Turn Going Oscar

Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

Heart Health Me Exercise Want High

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