Jesse Jackson Quotes

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

Jesse Jackson

Quotes to Explore

When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

Jack Reynor
- People
- Trying
- Career
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

Karan Mahajan
- Good
- Long
- Value
We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

Gary Bettman
- World
- You
- Journalism
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Stop
- Government
- Mystery
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

Sally Phillips
- Love
- Around
- Days
My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

E. L. Doctorow
- Music
- Father
- Day