"Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow."

-- Lani Guinier

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Loss Quotes

“I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.”

Source : Interview with Adam Scott, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 30, 2013.
“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”

Source : Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.
“Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.”

Source : Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.
“I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.”
“For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.”
“You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.”
“[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?”
“This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth,”

Source : Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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