Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

George Jackson Quotes

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1941 - August 21, 1971

Topics

Today Black Understand Order Come

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

People Credit Class Poor Working

I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You've got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, 'And it's okay if I wear nude tights with this?' to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.

Dog Yourself Me Fashion Saying Cold

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Education Prison End Most Felt Put

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

You Kind Impression Get Role Make

I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Stars Time Best Grateful Fat Doing

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Feet Pressure Enthusiasm Want Your

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Life Childhood Happy Happy Childhood

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

Michael Learned

Alone Time Myself Find Cleaning Now

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Work Alone Career Well Very Lives

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

Age Health Where May Against Still

My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.

Cornelia Parker

Mother Waiting You Wrong Wrong Thing

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

Friendship Friends Measure Need

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by George Jackson