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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.

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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.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• 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.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Respect

• My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• Top knots are the easiest thing to create.

  

  Zendaya
  • Create
  • Top
  • Knots

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Boxing

• 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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Stop
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now. Like, she'll come over to my house, and she'll be like, 'OK, listen. I need two T-shirts from the comedy show, and give me three DVDs. The neighbors are asking for them.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Students
  • Investment
  • Standards

• I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'

  

  Chris Bauer
  • People
  • True

• Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Discipline
  • Racism
  • Students