Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity , and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.