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Danny K. Davis Quotes

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.

Danny K. Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 6, 1941

Topics

Inequality Injustice Bar Racial Our

Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.

John Burnside

Down Lost Policy Industry Economic

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

Robert Griffin III

Myself Day American Being Myself Try

I feel like most standup comedians do it the way I did it, where you just go to open mics and cut your teeth. Sketch and improv - they take a lot of classes. It's not unusual, the way I did it. It's just that, with standup, no one knows how to start because there's no book for it; there's no place you can really go.

Michael Che

Start Book Feel You Place Sketch

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

Amy Bloom

I Am Think Name Feel Easy Always

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.

Stephen Mangan

Child Parents World View Look Must

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

Tori Amos

Parents Think Pressure Better

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

Roscoe Mitchell

Myself Learn Trying Student More

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

Mo Farah

Success Improvement Struggle Year

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

Lorraine Gary

Sleep Eating Anxiety Body Stop Over

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

Lloyd Alexander

Myself Reality Escape Understand Way

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

William T. Vollmann

Change Myself Negative Expectations

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

William Penn

Famous Real Popularity Avoid Benefit