Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes

If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.

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• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
  • Chef

• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• 'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Brave

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Power
  • Changing
  • Landscape

• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mirror
  • Grateful
  • Thankful

• If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Engineering
  • Engineer

• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • War
  • Man

• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God
  • Age
  • House

• Won’t you help the government in saving Gujarat? Won’t you help us in maintaining peace and harmony? The Government of Gujarat appeals to you for help, appeals to you for shanti (peace) and sanyam (restraint or self-discipline).

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Discipline

• Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Good
  • Education
  • Quality

• Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Future

• Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Parents
  • Culture
  • Control

• We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • People
  • Time

• I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • People
  • Family
  • History

• My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Life
  • History
  • Knowledge

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Time
  • Mind

• If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
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