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Tim Wise Quotes

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1968

Topics

You Back Country Everyone Racial

I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.

Time School Competition Law Think

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

Family Remember Down Everything Just

Every trip I made to Atlanta was crucial because it was so hard to get away from family and church duties.

Family Church Atlanta Hard Away Get

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.

Life Decision Think Someone Enough

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

Loleatta Holloway

Woman Child Singing Voice Church

I had bags of energy as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston

Energy Kid Bags Had

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

Colson Whitehead

New York Writing Book Black You New

It's a beautiful feeling to be out on the ice, breathing in the cold air and hearing the blades hit the ice. It's kind of romantic.

Beautiful Romantic Cold Ice Feeling

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

Experience Spiritual Think Thinking

I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.

Phoebe Robinson

Early Late Admit Boy More Never

Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are... pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.

Shervin Pishevar

Life Control World Perfect Phone

People say to me now, 'Oh, it must have been so glamorous to grow up in hotels, eat in restaurants.' Of course, we hated it.

Shana Alexander

People Me Grow Now Say Eat

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