Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes
While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.
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It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.
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I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.
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Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
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While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.
