Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.
Michael Eric Dyson
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
M. Emmet Walsh
I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
Natasha Calis
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
Felicity Jones
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
Nancy Gibbs
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
Daniel Craig
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
Laird Barron
My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.
Adam Sandler
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
August Strindberg
I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
Sabrina Carpenter
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
Martin Luther
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith
