"Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Children Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.”
“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.182, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.”
“You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, its hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.”

Source : "Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.
“Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.”

Source : Carolyn Wheat (2011). “How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense”, p.31, SCB Distributors
“Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.”
“When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.”

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