A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.

You have to watch them all the time, ’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

I think astrology is annoying bullshit-which is so Libra of me

Everything in life... has to have balance.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

Preparation is good, but customers need results.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

But in a story I can steal her soul.