"Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration."

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“I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.”
“Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.”
“Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.”

Source : “Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2013.
“It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.”
“If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?”
“They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.”
“Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.”

Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2016). “An American Girl in London”, p.16, Sara Jeannette Duncan
“If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.”

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