11 Quotes by Glenn Loury

Every now and then when I hear someone called a racist, I just mentally insert the word 'witch'. And it almost always works. What they're actually doing is they're calling you a witch.

The facilities are magnificent, the campus is beautiful - I even like living four days a week in Providence, which I never thought I was going to do,

I got my life back together and I haven't looked back,

I was a hot commodity, ... Being African-American didn't hurt me - I was one of the leading young theoretical economists of the generation.

I was once considered one of the pre-eminent black conservatives in the past, but now I'm more of a black progressive and I'm in the right place,

The graduate course will be going through the theories of inequality, inequalities of all kinds - why some countries are slower to grow than others, why some regions within countries are left behind, why some groups, whether racial, ethnic or whatever (are left behind),

What I was wrong about was not realizing that in my saying those things in the way I said them had political consequences, ... It wasn't just a matter about being right. Being right about something isn't good enough. You also have to be smart about it.

One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Plan for Academic Enrichment, ... So that just got me to thinking, so I picked up the phone and asked if anybody was interested down there.

It was a terrible thing, ... The bottom line is that I was involved with a young woman and it went sour, and some allegations which were not true about me assaulting her were made.