#ang

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#defined #every #food #language #music

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#gangster #playing #profitable #unfortunately #very

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#charge #chicago #could #crime #ever

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#dangers #duty #evils #frightful #haunted

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#change #congress #must #states #united

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#comfortable #costs #far #far less #inaction

My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#apply #asked #away #been #day-to-day