The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander Quotes

#1. It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.

Kesha

#2. Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

Michelle Alexander

#3. I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

Francis Ford Coppola

#4. Ravka is grateful for your service," Sturmhond said as they turned to go. "And so is the crown." He waved once. In the late afternoon light, with the sun behind him, he looked less like a privateer and more like... but that was just silly.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. The beginning is always today.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#6. After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag - the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

David Levering Lewis

#7. Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one's life.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Men are so constituted that they derive their conviction of their own possibilities largely from the estimate formed of them by others. If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation.

Michelle Alexander

#9. The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

Armand Hammer

#10. All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system.

Michelle Alexander

#12. Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

Jean Cocteau

#13. I'm Phoenix. The mythical bird that rises from the ashes. I've risen from fear and grief, from scandal and suffering, and from the crushing loneliness of walking with a purpose that is outside myself, but not within me. I know what's within me now, and I'm ready to fly again.

Heidi Joy Tretheway

#14. In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

Bjork

#15. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born.

Michelle Alexander

#16. I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Aleksandr Lebed

#17. Let your plans be assured from the end to the beginning. Let it be clear that the end is hopeful. Wake up.

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

#19. The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

Adrian Rogers

#20. Men are men ... Dragons are dragons.

George R R Martin