"75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody talks is because snitches get stitches and people aren't bulletproof."

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Source : Source: deadline.com

Cheo Hodari Coker

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Black Quotes

“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
“We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.”

Source : In Observer 4 May 1930
“Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.”
“[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit”
“So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.”
“You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.”
“Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?”

Source : Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.15, Profile Books

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