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Michelle Alexander

"We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, itâ€™s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim weâ€™ve left behind"

Source : "Schools and the New Jim Crow". Interview with Jody Sokolower, truth-out.org. June 04, 2013.

Michelle Alexander

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“In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.”

Source : Isidore Singer, Israel Zangwill (1924). “A Religion of Truth, Justice and Peace: A Challenge to Church and Synagogue to Lead in the Realization of the Social and Peace Gospel of the Hebrew Prophets”
“There's no political point worth my son's life.”
“You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.”
“The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the towel altogether - they explore what didn't work and course-correct.”
“Life is a tragedy full of joy.”

Source : New York Times, January 29, 1979.
“Nothing is more conservative than conservation”
“To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.”
“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?”

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