"There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown."

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Source : "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". Interview with Steve Inskeep, wksu.org. September 6, 2016.

Marc Lamont Hill

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Voting Quotes

“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
“I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable. I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him. Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way... it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.”
“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”
“Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.”
“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
“The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.”
“By walking, I found out where I was going.”

Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.110, McClelland & Stewart

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