Self Perpetuating Board Quotes & Sayings

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren't planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government's genocidal war against Black and Third World people. — Assata Shakur

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet. — Stacy Aumonier

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. — Dave Eggers

If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record. — Emmitt Smith

Penetrating the familiar is by no means a given. On the contrary, it is hard work. — Vivian Gornick

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. — Robin Williams

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist. — Thubten Yeshe

Better crawl each day than to sleep each day! They that crawl each day move each day, but they that sleep each day stay where they are each day! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision. — Evgeny Morozov

The visual of Satan isn't one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it's the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling. — Todd Stocker

Don't live to regret not doing something you've always wanted to do. Just do it! — Julie Whitley

To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence. — Jerome Lejeune

From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury"


Today, noon, a young macho friendly waiter and three diners,
business types - two males, one female -
are in a quandary about the name of the duck paddling
Otter Creek,
the duck being brown, but too large to be a female mallard.
They really want to know, and I'm the human-watcher behind the nook
of my table,
camouflaged by my stillness and nonchalant plumage.
They really want to know.
This sighting I record in the back of my Field Guide to People. — Greg Delanty