Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes
Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.
Quotes to Explore
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Time stays, we go.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.
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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
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Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.
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The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
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Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.
