#ring

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

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#down #folk #help #need #poor

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#easily #feel #good #good sign #laboring

I played Baby New Year. When everybody started hollering and throwing confetti, I thought it was for me. ↗

— Frederick Kelly

#everybody #hollering #i #me #new

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#armaments #certain #confidence #enduring #fulfill

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#dad #day #did #every #every night

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals. ↗

— Kesha

#bring #change #harming #hope #i