"Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs"

-- Michelle Alexander

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“I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.”
“The losses are good... if you learn something.”
“I really think that parenthood cracks you open, which sounds so vague, but it is a different type of vulnerability. That's the bottom line. There isn't a second that I'm with my daughter that I don't appreciate every moment we have. All you want to do is protect her and create the best bubble possible for her to view the world.”

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“One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.”
“As the tree is bent, so it will grow.”
“Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space,”
“On the sly, scoping for love.”
“I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.”

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