#tie

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #commodities #into #jobs #line

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#because #been #contaminated #educations #expensive

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#equal #extra #extra money #greater #inequalities

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#court #fighter #gives #him #never

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#clinic #i #killing #mayo #myself

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#become #could #depressing #factory #i

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#impatient #more #patient #person #plays

I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for? ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#celebrate #celebrities #go #hooked #i

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#am #end #extraordinarily #get #i