I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly
If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires. . . We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. . . we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr. , esquire.
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.
The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.
There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.