Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
John PowellThere's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
John PowellLoneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
John PowellThere is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.
John PowellWhen Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.
John Powell