Geoffrey Canada Quotes
I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did.
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No One Diets on Thanksgiving.
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I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.
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Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it's all incomplete and often fanciful - kids know there's something to know, and they fill in a bunch of the blanks with their imaginations if their parents haven't had the conversations and/or established themselves as sources of information. It's rare that the kids know nothing at all, and the somethings they do know are often only partially right or flat-out wrong.
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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.
