"[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Sharon Jones

#Islands Quotes

“I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.”
“It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.”
“We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.”

Source : Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I guess my life hasnâ€™t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else theyâ€™ll break my heart.”
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”
“Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.”
“Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”
“Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.”

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