John Roy Anderson Quotes
To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I was born free.
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I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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I just loved and love life. I love it today.
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Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.
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'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
