James Forman, Jr. Quotes

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

James Forman, Jr.

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Stories

• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Speak

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Nature

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Opinions
  • Wait
  • Economists

• I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Story
  • Library
  • Writer

• Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Me
  • Chicago
  • Hell

• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Time
  • World
  • Think

• I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Moment

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Game
  • Sound

• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Task

• May the countenance of Prydain be bright for my guidance. Sovereign of heaven, let my messages not be rejected.

  

  Taliesin
  • May
  • Heaven

• The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Serenity

• Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Good
  • Country
  • Real

• I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Marriage

• Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Time
  • Music

• They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • God
  • Kids
  • Actors

• I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Home
  • Comeback

• While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

  

  James Forman, Jr.