Decelerating Waveform Quotes & Sayings

It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors. — Pat Conroy

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so ... I feel such a deep connection to it. — Q'orianka Kilcher

This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sometimes choice means change. Fate doesn't often give us a lot of insight on what will be. — John Chapman

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day. — Jake Johnson

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me. — David Friedman