Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.
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I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'
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Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.