I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

Our fathers were demons, ' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.