Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
-
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
-
I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
-
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
-
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
I was so ashamed of who I was.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
-
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
-
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
-
I'm not averse to telling people off.
-
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
-
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
-
Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
-
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
-
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
-
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.
-
I've done network shows. A director will call me and say, 'Do you want to do this with me?' and I'll say, 'Sure,' but I couldn't do it forever because there's no real expression. That's not how people talk.
-
Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.
-
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
-
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
-
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.
