"Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up."

-- Randall Robinson

#African American Quotes #Salary Quotes #Unemployment Quotes

“Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.”
“When my husband of almost 20 years canâ€™t take his eyes off me? Thatâ€™s amazing,”
“but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.”
“. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!”
“The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.”

Source : "Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters". Book by Gregory Colbert, 2005.
“I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.”
“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.”
“I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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