I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
One of the best things I found out about Detroit is that bears have started returning to the city. When bears are… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad. — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Tiger Woods is a billionaire. Do you know how much ass you can get with a billion dollars? I know guys with… — Donnell Rawlings Copy Share Image
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along… — Janet Frame 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 should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually… — Ice T Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems.… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white… — Muhammad Ali 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
