#jim

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#injustice #jim-crow #racism #age

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. ↗

— Eric Burdon

#conventional #conventional way #decided #exit #i

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#card #finishes #first #jim #other

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others. ↗

— Deana Carter

#before #did #europe #first #i

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#default #jimmy #minus #run #wants

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#benefit #broke #business #dean #fortune

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson. ↗

— Dan Fouts

#friendship #great #great things #hawai #i

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her! ↗

— Sam Kinison

#everything #her #jim #jim bakker #lost

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#centre #doors #figure #figurehead #into