Almaleves Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding. — Cornel West

My biggest weakness is that I'm a perfectionist, — Sophia Amoruso

One who reads is the one that is empowered — Valarie DeShazier

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it. — Wayne Dyer

Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Cripple coming through! Cripple coming through! Move out the way! — Matthew Quick

I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible. I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest — Margaret Thatcher

Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. — Elan Mastai

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. — John Eaton