Alice Mcgee Quotes & Sayings

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. 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. — Michelle Alexander

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. — Billy Sunday

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. — Kenneth Baker

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge. — Nelson Mandela

This body is like the earth. Our bones are like mountains. Our belly is like the sea. Our flesh is like the dust and mud. The hair that grows on us is like plants, and the skin from which this hair grows is like arable land, and the area of our body where hair does not grow is akin to saline soil. Our sadness is like darkness and our laughter like sunlight. Sleep is brother to death. Our childhood is like spring, our youth like summer. Our maturity is like the autumn, our old age like the winter of life. All of our movements are like the stars moving in the sky. — Shems Friedlander

I just wanted to honor who Emily was. She's just a strong woman. Through my journey of playing her, I found a lot of strength, and I think that I've changed, as a female, in the way that I carry myself. To go through something traumatic, like getting your face scarred, it made me analyze vanity a lot. When you have a little pimple and you're like, "Oh, my god, there's an alien on my face!," you feel like it's magnified. — Tinsel Korey

The river in front of her was black. She thought it contained many things. — Gisele Prassinos

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I am so freaked our right now, you could pull a clown out of my ass and I wouldn't be at all surprised — John Green

I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset. — Libba Bray

We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing. — Miroslav Krleza

I declare peace as the greatest work of art. — Wolf Vostell

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins. — Mark Doty

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it. — Jill Telford