Quotes About Minnesota

Most white Minnesotans have forgotten that they were strangers here once. Or that they are not native to this land.

When I first moved to Minnesota, most folks didn't say they were white. They proclaimed their heritage. Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, French. Strange, I thought. When did they become white? Maybe winter changes people into colors. I waited to see.

The culture of Minnesota Nice has meant that the face of discrimination has almost always been much more subtle here. But the kind of subtlety that underlies Minnesota Nice—extreme and highly nuanced—only makes racism harder to fight.

If living in Minnesota has taught me one thing, it is that people will lash out at whoever tries to show what sits behind the appearance of things, especially if their own bias is the culprit.

I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.

Brock Lesnar from the Minnesota. He is one of the best wrestling background, like Iron Sheik and like the Kurt Angle, Dan Gable. He the real freestyle wrestling.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

Learning is not limited to the classroom, and Minnesota shouldn't limit its education resources there, either.

I love everything Minnesota.

I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.

I grew up in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

I loved my time in Minnesota. I loved it so much that I lived up there until 1999.

The way elections are won in Minnesota is by talking to people and sharing what's on their minds. It sounds so simple, but it really is the thing that works.

KG is Minnesota basketball, he is the Timberwolves - what he did, just the intensity he brought to the game.