Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
That's like a dream come true. To be able to hire friends, to shoot a movie in the neighborhood where you grew… — Louis Lombardi Copy Share Image
I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where… — Carrot Top Copy Share Image
When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“What does our neighborhood say about us? What is the value of a neighborhood? Mine is a mirror of my past choices.… — Lauren Elkin Copy Share Image
I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Some of the worst neighborhoods are so physically isolated, and more than anything, they're spiritually isolated. They're so close and yet so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
The images that people see in the media of black people - whether journalistic or narrative - remain horrible. And those images,… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should… — Victor Suarez Melendez Copy Share Image
What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
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