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Nothing can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal,” Jackson wrote, “but nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”
“I’m not afraid of death,” he said. “Only of not having done enough, of having failed out of laziness.”
― American Spy
― American Spy
“The thing about getting old, Bar,” Toot had told me, “is that you’re the same person inside.” I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. “You’re trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it’s still you. You understand?” I did now.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“It is humbling to have your social fluency, your sense of yourself as a competent, independent person, upended by a foreign city.”
― American Spy
― American Spy
“Nothing can stop the man with the right attitude from achieving his goal,” Jackson wrote, “but nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”
― The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
― The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
“The National Center for Women and Policing reported in 2014 that 10 percent of American families experience domestic violence, but for police officers’ families, the number is two to four times higher, one of the highest rates in the nation, though given the issue’s national coverage a first guess would be that the highest rate involves black football players.”
― Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
― Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
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