The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.


Booker T. Washington

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After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career ...
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When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spir...
CORY BOOKER
The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are buil...
CORY BOOKER
I started to use mountain climbing as a metaphor for what life with MS is like. We can't always do w...
WENDY BOOKER
awash with too many arms.
SALIH BOOKER
I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republica...
CORY BOOKER
AIDS makes the system of global apartheid clear. We should be spending money on AIDS, not on war.
SALIH BOOKER
He . . . is still [held] in high regard by faith leaders across the U.S.. He's the kind of person wh...
SALIH BOOKER
Once again the Bush administration seeks to promote a 'compassionate conservative' image by repackag...
SALIH BOOKER
When President Bush's father was in office, an almost identical scenario faced the United States. Th...
SALIH BOOKER
Once again the Bush administration seeks to promote a 'compassionate conservative' image by repackag...
SALIH BOOKER
When President Bush's father was in office, an almost identical scenario faced the United States. Th...
SALIH BOOKER
Pressure from the British because they are playing a similar role in neighboring Sierra Leone, press...
SALIH BOOKER
a cruel hoax because none of this money is being made available now. ... Faced with this most deadly...
SALIH BOOKER
Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've g...
CORY BOOKER
We've had long layoffs earlier in the season. It didn't affect us then, and this won't either. I'm r...
DAVID BOOKER
This game had a great atmosphere. I'm glad we came out with a win. And I helped the team win.
DAVID BOOKER
I am not looking at this game that way. It's an honor to get selected. I want to go out and win my l...
DAVID BOOKER
The record is an accomplishment that I'd never thought I'd have. I thought about it midway through t...
DAVID BOOKER
Scoring all of those points doesn't matter. All that mattered to me was winning the game. Our guards...
DAVID BOOKER
This is just one of many good stretches for me. Coach told me to set the tone for the team. I think ...
DAVID BOOKER
This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of you...
CORY BOOKER
I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across...
CORY BOOKER
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
CORY BOOKER
Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want...
CORY BOOKER
As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors ...
CORY BOOKER
I think that whatever administration that comes in must take a hard look at that project and make su...
CORY BOOKER
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
CORY BOOKER
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many...
CORY BOOKER
Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocal...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk co...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future fo...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'S...
BENJAMIN BOOKER