43 Quotes by David Bradley

That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate.

... she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do.

And so he set about restoring them, using the tricks he had learned over the years. He went to them, speaking to each of them in tones so low that none of the others could hear, getting their names, gently touching them, asking about their pains, their fears, gently eliciting their stories, reminding them of why they had run in the first place.

What they're doing is what we're trying to do, which is close the gap a bit. The percentage increase sounds daunting, but the dollar increase is not.

UH-Downtown has a very severe space deficit at this time.

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.

I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous

I invented it, Bill made it famous.