M.K. Alexander Quotes
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.
Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you
I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.
Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.
I have had bosses that were genuinely excited when I told them I was pregnant. I feel very blessed, but I also know I need to continue to do excellent work and stay organized.
If anything, people think it's cool that I'm still working. I'm proud to be a working mama in this world.
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more.
I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.
Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.
I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.
Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.
MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.
I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.
Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.
We must muster the courage, we must find the will, we must do what is necessary to build a truly transformative movement that will end the history and cycle of caste in America.
Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.
For many, whether they go to prison or not is far less about the choices they make and far more about what kind of cage they're born into.
We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.
Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.
In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who do we really care about?
Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.
Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.
Discrimination in public benefits is also perfectly legal. Under federal law, people convicted of drug felonies are deemed ineligible even for food stamps.
By waging the drug war and "getting tough" almost exclusively in the 'hood, we've managed to create a vast new racial undercaste in an astonishingly short period of time.
There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.
Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.
Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.