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It would take more than fifteen years before most of the South conceded to the Brown ruling and then only under additional court orders.
— Isabel Wilkerson
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
— Henry Miller
From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.
— Isabel Wilkerson
Dozens of school districts forwent federal funding rather than integrate their schools.
— Isabel Wilkerson
The general laws of migration hold that the greater the obstacles and the farther the distance traveled, the more ambitious the migrants.
— Isabel Wilkerson
I don't actually go on the Internet that much.
— Jennifer Coolidge
Your hair is a tangled mess,he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.
— Kim Harrison
The state funneled money to private academies for white students.
— Isabel Wilkerson
They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.
— Isabel Wilkerson
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
— Isabel Wilkerson
But black students were left on their own.
— Isabel Wilkerson
Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
— C. Terry Warner
They've found a link between chemicals in shampoo and obesity. If you're eating shampoo, your weight is the least of your concerns.
— Craig Ferguson
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
— Isabel Wilkerson
because of a chemical in his skin that some people resented and felt superior to and that no one on this earth could change.
— Isabel Wilkerson
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
— Isabel Wilkerson
I'll give you a reason," I tell her, my voice raw. "I promise. If you give me the chance, I will give you a reason to be with me.
— Courtney Cole
I read once that if a bunch of butterflies takes off from Thailand, it can cause a rainstorm in New York.
— Lauren Oliver
Still it made no sense to Pershing that one set of people could be in a cage, and the people outside couldn't see the bars.
— Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
— Cornel West
They speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement ...
— Isabel Wilkerson
As the distance of migration increases," wrote the migration scholar Everett Lee, "the migrants become an increasingly superior group.
— Isabel Wilkerson
